Software Design and Architecture Resources

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

· 85,135 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

· 18,559 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

· 224,466 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

CORE

· 19,628 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

· 6,274 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

· 7,100 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

· 12,505 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

· 10,976 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

· 10,960 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

· 29,132 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

· 12,162 Views · 4 Likes

Circuit Breaker Implementation in Resilience4j

In this article, we show you how a circuit breaker implementation can increase the performance of your Resilience4j application.

September 28, 2017

by Bohdan Storozhuk

· 23,702 Views · 8 Likes

Mastering RediSearch (Part 1)

If you’ve built an app with Redis as a primary data store, you’ve likely experienced the confusion of the native data types. Ease this confusion by learning how RediSearch stores data.

September 27, 2017

by Kyle Davis

· 10,528 Views · 6 Likes

Understanding API Design

This in-depth guide to API design will help you understand the types of APIs, their structure, and how to make calls and navigate them.

September 26, 2017

by Nagarjunareddy K

· 12,694 Views · 14 Likes

Decision Trees vs. Clustering Algorithms vs. Linear Regression

The goal of someone learning ML should be to use it to improve everyday tasks—whether work-related or personal. To do this, it's important to first understand algorithms.

September 26, 2017

by Sibanjan Das

· 30,186 Views · 17 Likes

Basic Example for Spark Structured Streaming and Kafka Integration

With the newest Kafka consumer API, there are notable differences in usage. Learn how to integrate Spark Structured Streaming and Kafka using this new API.

September 26, 2017

by Ayush Tiwari

· 64,595 Views · 17 Likes