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The API Lifecycle

The API lifecycle involves a publisher, manager, and consumer. It includes steps such as planning, designing, authentication, and creation.

January 13, 2017

by Karthick Viswanathan

· 36,157 Views · 8 Likes

AWS Lambda Performance and Cold Starts

How do you build fast and resilient functions when many traditional system and application metrics are either unavailable or no longer relevant?

January 13, 2017

by Clay Smith

· 15,551 Views · 2 Likes

Creating AWS Lambda Functions From Octopus Deployments

Merging continuous deployment and serverless tech is possible. Assuming you've got a pivot machine, you can combine the power of your Octopus deploys and AWS Lambda.

January 12, 2017

by João Rosa

· 10,024 Views · 4 Likes

Fire Up BDD Inside Docker With Cucumber and BDDfire

BDDfire allows you to set up the entire framework with code quality, browser testing, cloud testing, API testing, and Docker integration by running three simple commands.

January 11, 2017

by Shashikant Jagtap

· 9,558 Views · 1 Like

Announcing the Logz.io Search API

Logz.io has announced a new API that will enable users to safely and securely query the data that they are shipping to Logz.io using the Elasticsearch Search API DSL.

January 11, 2017

by Daniel Berman

· 4,654 Views · 1 Like

Evicting Instances From Eureka

Spring Cloud Eureka's self-preservation tool is great for network problems, but it could keep your instances around when you don't want to. Fortunately, you can fix that.

January 10, 2017

by Ryan Baxter

· 9,691 Views · 2 Likes

5 Key Elements of Digital Payment Systems

Digital payment systems are becoming more and more popular, but what needs to happen in order for this growth to continue?

January 10, 2017

by Hiren Tanna

· 21,483 Views · 3 Likes

Gatling vs. JMeter

What's the max amount of threads you can run with each tool before you start getting errors or saturating a basic resource? Is there significantly different resource use?

January 10, 2017

by Federico Toledo

· 52,554 Views · 19 Likes

The Basics of API-Driven Development

With API-driven development having API as the fulcrum, your app is will not just survive but also thrive in this connected world.

January 10, 2017

by Karthick Viswanathan

· 60,399 Views · 7 Likes

Working With RequireJS in Oracle JET

The latest article in a series of tutorials on Oracle JET, this time focused on what RequireJS can bring to the table.

Updated January 9, 2017

by Chris Muir

· 14,750 Views · 7 Likes

Redis Users Rejoice! The JCache API Is Here

If you've been waiting for Redisson's JCache API implementation, then wait no more.

Updated January 6, 2017

by Nikita Koksharov

· 37,204 Views · 7 Likes

Kafka Avro Scala Example

Learn how to write and read messages in Avro format to/from Kafka. Read on to understand how to produce messages encoded with Avro, how to send them into Kafka, and how to consume with consumer and finally how to decode them.

January 6, 2017

by Sushil Kumar Singh

· 424,531 Views · 11 Likes

Generating Your GCM Sender ID and Server Key for Chrome Push

Firebase, Google's cloud-based tool suite, can help add flexibility and user friendliness to apps. This guide walks you through setting up push notifications.

January 6, 2017

by Ruchika Sharma

· 18,891 Views · 1 Like

Minideb: A Minimalist, Debian-Based Docker Image

Alpine Linux-based Docker images are small, but they can still bloat up quickly. If you're concerned about image size, search for alternatives, like Minideb.

January 6, 2017

by Sebastien Goasguen

· 63,072 Views · 3 Likes

Microservices vs. SOA

If you have worked with SOA before, you might wonder what is the difference between SOA and Microservices. Here I have explained both architectures and compared them in details.

Updated January 4, 2017

by Ima Miri

· 215,229 Views · 52 Likes

An Introduction to Load Testing With Gatling

A new open source weapon for load testing has emerged, (Gatling) guns blazing!

Updated January 4, 2017

by Sree Tejaswi

· 29,587 Views · 22 Likes

Documenting Architecture

Much like there is not one definition around what an architect does, there is not one standard precise way of documenting architecture.

January 4, 2017

by Yogeshwar Srikrishnan

· 45,094 Views · 33 Likes

Generating Maps With Mapnik and Docker

I've used OpenStreetMap to render maps, but ran into a problem with my Retina MacBook Pro. I needed special tiles rendered with a big scale factor to make them sharp.

January 4, 2017

by Dmitry Pokidov

· 11,082 Views · 3 Likes

Protobuf Alternative to REST for Microservices

When JSON appears to be inefficient, Protocol Buffers can be a viable option...but how viable, exactly?

January 4, 2017

by Mike Ensor

· 17,049 Views · 17 Likes

Architectural Shift in Web Applications

Let's jump right into this series with a look at architectural shifts that have occurred recently in web application.

January 4, 2017

by Amit Rathi

· 35,860 Views · 64 Likes

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