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SDK Patterns for Accelerating API Integration

In this article, James Higginbotham explains what an SDK is, the differences between SDKs and helper libraries, and four different SDK patterns for API providers.

November 29, 2016

by James Higginbotham

· 5,936 Views · 2 Likes

Optimum Database Connection Pool Size

Want to figure out the best size for your connection pool? Here's how the math pans out, courtesy of some simple logic.

November 28, 2016

by Anubhav R Mulchandani

· 41,619 Views · 5 Likes

Real-World Problems Solved By DevOps

Improved quality, speed to market, and reduced cycle times with automation are just a few of the major issues that DevOps can handle.

November 28, 2016

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 17,067 Views · 3 Likes

Logging Docker Containers With AWS Cloudwatch

This post describes how to set up the integration between Docker and AWS and then establish a pipeline of logs from CloudWatch into the ELK Stack.

November 28, 2016

by Daniel Berman

· 10,030 Views · 3 Likes

A Review of Template Engines: What Next After Velocity?

With Velocity deprecated, let's take a walk through some other popular template engines to see what works best where.

November 28, 2016

by Miro Wengner

· 82,578 Views · 7 Likes

How to Spider a Site With JMeter

The team at Blazemeter talks about using the JMeter tool for a repeatable process to crawl a website and randomly click on links within the site.

November 28, 2016

by Ilan Hertz

· 8,393 Views · 3 Likes

The Most Important Elements of DevOps

People, process, and technology are three of the most important elements of DevOps. Which other elements would you name?

November 27, 2016

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 40,490 Views · 8 Likes

Health Checking Your Docker Containers

Are your containers feeling under the weather? Struggling to get out of bed? See how you can build in health checks to make sure your containers are fighting fit.

November 25, 2016

by Arun Gupta

· 53,125 Views · 9 Likes

Hypothesis Test Using Pearson’s Chi-squared Test Algorithm

In this article, the author will show how to perform statistical hypothesis test using Spark machine learning API (aka Spark MLlib).

November 25, 2016

by Md. Rezaul Karim

· 14,728 Views · 2 Likes

HDFS Cheat Sheet

This article serves as a quick hands-on guide and tutorial to the most useful HDFS commands for managing HDFS files from the command line.

November 24, 2016

by Tim Spann

CORE

· 38,545 Views · 5 Likes

PyGitHub Quickstart Examples

Helpful examples can make up for a lack of documentation. In this article, Chase Seibert shares some of his example code.

November 24, 2016

by Chase Seibert

· 10,143 Views · 1 Like

Android Development: Drawing Text on a Canvas

In this post, we take a look at a common need when making Android apps: how to put text directly onto a Canvas. Read on to find out how it's done!

November 23, 2016

by Kevin Hooke

· 11,058 Views · 1 Like

Get to Know Netflix's Zuul

Here's a look at what Zuul can offer your applications, ranging from authentication and security to routing to resiliency and more.

November 22, 2016

by Rafael Salerno

· 86,309 Views · 19 Likes

Performance Testing With a Think Time

The author investigates the effect of think time on the performance (i.e., throughput and latency) of a WSO2 API Manager under different concurrency levels.

November 22, 2016

by Malith Jayasinghe

· 22,207 Views · 7 Likes

5 Exceptional Regression Testing Tools

Open-source tools are free, but we need to look at the bigger picture. Check out this list of five regression testing automation tools for enterprises.

November 22, 2016

by Pratik Satasiya

· 50,788 Views · 9 Likes

Developing a Facebook Chatbot With AWS Lambda and MongoDB Atlas

Learn how to program your own chatbot with the helping hands of AWS Lambda and MongoDB's DBaaS, Atlas.

November 21, 2016

by Jason Ma

· 6,978 Views · 7 Likes

7 Tips for Writing Better Unit Tests in Java

Want to write better unit tests in Java? Look no further. From test-driven development to measuring code coverage, here are seven tips to get the job done.

November 21, 2016

by Reshma Bidikar

· 177,180 Views · 29 Likes

Why Do Microservices Need an API Gateway?

With the growth of API-centric IT initiatives, API gateways and management layers are common place. Should we consider an API gateway for microservices?

November 20, 2016

by James Higginbotham

· 28,439 Views · 16 Likes

Tracing in Microservices With Spring Cloud Sleuth

Follow along to gain some insight into tracing requests that span multiple microservices in the Spring Cloud ecosystem.

November 18, 2016

by Ryan Baxter

· 110,414 Views · 21 Likes

How to Build Microservices in Python

In this article, learn how to deploy microservices that are created using either Python and Django on both Nginx and uWSGI.

November 15, 2016

by Rakesh Kalidindi

· 27,964 Views · 6 Likes

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