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Running Out of RAM on Redis? No More OOM With Hybrid Memory (RAM and Flash)

In this article, we take a look at how this tool can help reduce your web or mobile app's loading times and latency. Read on!

Updated October 3, 2017

by Cihan B.

· 10,662 Views · 2 Likes

Comparison API for Apache Kafka

Learn about a variety of use cases for Kafka and Kafka's API — from from consuming and writing data to streams to more reactive approaches with Akka.

October 3, 2017

by Artem Rukavytsia

· 9,817 Views · 10 Likes

How to Check Open Source Code for Vulnerabilities

As open source code becomes a greater part of the foundation of the tech we use every day, it's important that developers know how to check it for security vulnerabilities.

October 3, 2017

by Caleb Fenton

· 25,414 Views · 7 Likes

Load Testing Your DataBase-Connected APIs With Gatling

In this article, a performance tester shows us how to use Gatling to load test APIs with a database interaction. Read on for more!

October 2, 2017

by Grigor Avagyan

· 10,982 Views · 2 Likes

On-Demand Compute Pricing: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google

Take note, cloud architects: In this three-way battle of the cloud giants, see how on-demand compute pricing compares among AWS, Azure, and Google.

October 2, 2017

by Jignesh Solanki

· 19,316 Views · 10 Likes

Cool SQL Optimizations That Do Not Depend on the Cost Model (Part 2)

Learn about five (more!) simple optimizations that can be implemented purely based on metadata (i.e. constraints) and the query itself.

October 1, 2017

by Lukas Eder

· 4,773 Views · 6 Likes

Processing Hierarchical Data Using Spark GraphX Pregel API

Learn about using the GraphX Pregel API, a very powerful tool that can be used to solve iterative problems and pretty much any graph computation.

September 30, 2017

by Suraj Bang

· 16,764 Views · 2 Likes

Packers, How They Work, Featuring UPX

A security researcher demonstrates how to get packers, specifically UPX, up and running on our system. Read on to learn more!

September 30, 2017

by Christopher Lamb

· 22,871 Views · 1 Like

Weak, Soft, and Phantom References in Java (and Why They Matter)

This breakdown of weak, soft, and phantom references explains how they impact GC and memory allocation as well as some ideal use cases.

September 30, 2017

by Uberto Barbini

· 84,981 Views · 36 Likes

Building a Realtime Chat App With Django and Fanout Cloud

In this tutorial, we show you how to create a web-based, communication application using these two free platforms. Read on for more!

September 30, 2017

by Justin Karneges

· 18,506 Views · 4 Likes

Recover Deleted Data From SQL Table Using Transaction Log and LSNs

As the SQL Server database is a highly popular relational DBMS among corporate sectors and businesses, the issue of data loss is critical.

September 29, 2017

by Prashanth Jayaram

· 224,376 Views · 3 Likes

Automating REST Acceptance Tests

In this article, we take a look at automating acceptance tests, using Cucumber, Gherkin, and Java as our main technologies.

September 29, 2017

by Justin Albano

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· 19,546 Views · 8 Likes

FinTech Continues to Disrupt the Digital API Economy. What's Next?

See the ways in which the emergence of FinTech and the accompanying digital products signifies a major shift in the API economy.

Updated September 29, 2017

by Ross Garrett

· 6,249 Views · 1 Like

Cloud-Agnostic Object Storage for Everybody!

See how you can use Minio and Cloud 66 to handle production-grade object storage without worrying about cloud vendor lock-in.

September 29, 2017

by Daniël van Gils

· 7,061 Views · 1 Like

Cool SQL Optimizations That Do Not Depend on the Cost Model (Part 1)

Learn about five simple optimizations that can be implemented purely based on metadata (i.e. constraints) and the query itself.

September 29, 2017

by Lukas Eder

· 4,986 Views · 4 Likes

Lightweight JVM Diagnostics Tools and Containers

Here are the challenges with running JVM diagnostics on containerized apps and how you can get around them to get good performance data.

September 29, 2017

by Sasha Goldshtein

· 12,422 Views · 4 Likes

Creating Test Cases Using Script Mode With Katalon Studio

This tutorial will show you how to programmatically write automated test cases in script view in Katalon Studio, using Java and Groovy.

September 28, 2017

by Oliver Howard

· 10,929 Views · 10 Likes

Should You API-Enable Your IBM i (AS/400)?

See how leveraging APIs can benefit IBM i users, and how you can integrate it to support the functionality that APIs offer.

September 28, 2017

by Robert Young

· 10,920 Views · 4 Likes

How to Ensure the Security of Your APIs

Learn how to implement security measures for your APIs by following the steps in this detailed tutorial on defining a custom OAuth2.0 security scheme.

September 28, 2017

by Nagarjunareddy K

· 29,043 Views · 2 Likes

Benchmarking Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, and NuoDB

Take a deep dive into three elastic SQL databases, all of which are pretty promising options that meet the needs of the modern data center.

September 28, 2017

by Boris Bulanov

· 12,123 Views · 4 Likes

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