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Why Premature Optimization Is the Root of All Evil

It's a famous saying in computer science, but why exactly is it true? We take a look at the reasons why it is in this post.

November 29, 2017

by Matt Watson

· 9,298 Views · 7 Likes

Quick Start With Apache Livy

Learn how to get started with Apache Livy, a project in the process of being incubated by Apache that interacts with Apache Spark through a REST interface.

November 28, 2017

by Guglielmo Iozzia

· 48,227 Views · 7 Likes

Azure WebJobs vs. Azure Functions

This side-by-side comparison considers when to use WebJobs over Azure Functions and vice versa as well as trends to consider for the future.

November 28, 2017

by Simon Timms

· 11,182 Views · 3 Likes

Security Testing With JMeter - Learn How

A professional security tester shows us how to use the open source tool JMeter to perform security tests on our web applications.

November 27, 2017

by Roman Aladev

· 13,129 Views · 3 Likes

How to Perform Arithmetic Operations on Numeric Variables When Load Testing

Testers often need to conduct arithmetic operations on variables in load or functional testing. See how to accomplish this with JMeter.

November 27, 2017

by Sergey Horban

· 9,514 Views · 3 Likes

AWS IoT: Retrieving SQS Messages From a Queue

Let's set up an AWS IoT Rule to call an AWS Lambda function triggered by MQTT messages. See how it's configured with this step-by-step guides.

November 27, 2017

by Kevin Hooke

· 8,795 Views · 4 Likes

MicroProfile: 5 Things You Need to Know

Here is everything you need to know about the ongoing design, philosophy, and process of developing the MicroProfile initiative.

November 26, 2017

by Alex Theedom

· 56,735 Views · 5 Likes

Spring Boot Plus Apache Ignite Data Grid

Learn how to integrate Spring Boot with Apache Ignite to use Ignite's persistent durable memory feature and execute SQL queries over Ignite caches.

November 26, 2017

by Mahmoud Romeh

· 34,041 Views · 9 Likes

7 Plays to Handle Bug Fixes in Your DevOps Process to Change the Game

DevOps is about people, processes, and tools, and it's the responsibility of all three to help find and handle bugs during your DevOps process.

November 25, 2017

by Tzvika Shahaf

· 14,992 Views · 1 Like

Myth 2: The Sprint Backlog Can't Change During the Sprint

This is false, because, a Sprint Backlog is flexible, as long as changes do not distract from the focus on the Sprint Goal.

November 24, 2017

by Barry Overeem

· 15,754 Views · 4 Likes

Publishing Messages From a Web App to an AWS SQS Queue via AWS Lambda

In the ever-expanding list of ways AWS Lambda can help, we see how to use it to publish your web app's messages to AWS SQS.

Updated November 24, 2017

by Kevin Hooke

· 12,551 Views · 2 Likes

Azure NSG Flow Logs Analysis With the ELK Stack

If you haven't had a chance to explore Azure's Network Watcher, including the Network Security Group Flow logs, here's how to get the ELK integrated for analysis.

Updated November 24, 2017

by Daniel Berman

· 8,601 Views · 2 Likes

ETL Pipeline to Analyze Healthcare Data With Spark SQL, JSON, and MapR-DB

Learn how to ETL Open Payments CSV file data to JSON, explore with SQL, and store in a document database using Spark Datasets and MapR-DB.

November 23, 2017

by Carol McDonald

· 17,495 Views · 7 Likes

Installing Java, Supervisord, and Other Service Dependencies With Ansible

Learn how to use a playbook in Ansible to install and configure an instance of Java and Supervisord, to restart the process in case of a crash.

November 22, 2017

by Bill O'Neil

· 11,061 Views · 2 Likes

ViroCore: SceneKit for Android Developers

ViroCore is the Android equivalent of SceneKit, providing Android developers with native AR/VR development capabilities in Java.

November 22, 2017

by Danny Moon

· 8,657 Views · 5 Likes

Building Fast, Agile Apps at Scale With Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Redis Labs [Q+A]

Redis Labs sat down with the Director of Product Marketing at Pivotal to take a deeper look at the Redis Enterprise tile for Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

Updated November 21, 2017

by Cassie Zimmerman

· 6,055 Views · 4 Likes

How to Integrate SSO Into Your Application

Single Sign-On (SSO), has become a very popular method of authentication. Read on to learn about the two different methods available for implementing SSO.

November 21, 2017

by Izzy Azeri

· 27,870 Views · 6 Likes

Agile Framework Comparison: Scrum vs Kanban vs Lean vs XP

In this post, we offer a comparison of the four most popular ways of working with Agile development methodologies, and give the pros and cons of each.

November 21, 2017

by Alesia Krush

· 76,311 Views · 22 Likes

Publishing Spring Boot Logs to Azure Log Analytics

Azure Log Analytics lacks versatility, doesn't have any Log API connectors, and fails in terms of Java APIs. Check out how a sample project I made solves this problem.

November 21, 2017

by Muthu Veerappan Venkatachalam

· 15,735 Views · 2 Likes

NAT Instance vs. NAT Gateway

This comparison of AWS NAT Instances and NAT Gateways considers when to use them and how they compare against each other.

Updated November 21, 2017

by Keith Gregory

· 30,285 Views · 10 Likes

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