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Page Objects Refactored: SOLID Steps to the Screenplay/Journey Pattern

Automated web tests should follow good object-oriented design principles, too.

February 24, 2016

by Antony Marcano

· 57,107 Views · 14 Likes

In recent years, API use, and reliance on web services has increased. Here's a list of 12 awesome web service testing tools to aid your API and web service journey.

February 24, 2016

by NaveenKumar Namachivayam

CORE

· 300,538 Views · 38 Likes

Choosing a Microservices Deployment Strategy Part 6

Here's part 6 of our microservices architecture, with a focus on deployment strategy!

February 23, 2016

by Chris Richardson

· 45,012 Views · 9 Likes

Microservice Performance Patterns

Microservices-based systems are increasingly prevalent. Here's a look at five common microservice-specific performance challenges and how to meet them.

February 22, 2016

by Rohit Dhall

· 31,871 Views · 23 Likes

Is it Time for a Chief Performance Officer?

We have all kinds of chief officers. Is now the time for Chief Performance Officers (CPO)? With more onus on performance, maybe so.

February 21, 2016

by Mehdi Daoudi

· 3,043 Views · 4 Likes

Insights From Stackoverflow: Most Voted for Spring 4 Questions

Spring 4 is widely used, but as with any technology, there are loads of questions. Here are the most asked and answered questions on Stackoverflow, like differences in component and controller annotations, and what the Spring framework is actually used for.

February 20, 2016

by Alex Theedom

· 12,309 Views · 15 Likes

Inter-Process Communication in a Microservices Architecture

In part 3 of our building microservices series, let's explore inter-process communication in a microservices architecture!

February 20, 2016

by Chris Richardson

· 130,572 Views · 51 Likes

Real-time Data Pipelines with Kafka Connect

Information about Kafka Connect sourced from Spark Summit East 2016.

February 19, 2016

by Tim Spann

CORE

· 16,585 Views · 5 Likes

6 Easy Steps to Testing Your Chrome Extension With Selenium

How to use Selenium to test your custom Chrome extensions rather than just your web apps.

February 19, 2016

by Eliran Shani

· 20,983 Views · 2 Likes

Loading Data Into Azure SQL Data Warehouse

I’m not an ETL expert. In fact, I haven’t done any professional ETL work for several years. My skills are, at best, rusty. With this in mind, I knew I’d have a hard time extracting data from a local database in order to move it up to Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Read on to hear about my journey.

February 18, 2016

by Grant Fritchey

· 14,243 Views · 6 Likes

The Most Important Elements of Cloud-Based Applications

Scalability, security, cost savings, integration/connectivity, and stability/availability are all important elements of cloud-based applications.

February 18, 2016

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 9,076 Views · 3 Likes

Docker Daemon for 32-bit Architecture

This post provides the steps required to build a Docker daemon for 32-bit Linux platforms. Read on to see how it's done.

February 17, 2016

by Jim Bugwadia

· 17,971 Views · 5 Likes

Expecting Failures in Microservices and Working Around Them

Learn more about microservice failures, and ways to circumvent failures in this excerpt from "Microservices in .NET."

February 17, 2016

by Christian Horsdal

· 28,754 Views · 7 Likes

Serialization Must Die

Security issues and problems with serialization of random objects.

February 16, 2016

by Arshan Dabirsiaghi

· 26,835 Views · 18 Likes

Write JUnit Tests in Spring With Mocked and Real Objects

How to use mocked and non-mocked data to write unit tests using the free and open source JUnit framework.

February 16, 2016

by Saravanan Kandasamy

· 17,229 Views · 7 Likes

Running AWS Lambda Functions in AWS CodePipeline Using CloudFormation

Recently, AWS announced that they’ve added support for triggering AWS Lambda functions into AWS CodePipeline–AWS’ Continuous Delivery service. In this article, I’ll describe how I codified the provisioning of all of the AWS resources in the documentation using CloudFormation.

February 12, 2016

by Paul Duvall

· 17,849 Views · 1 Like

What Implementation Partners and System Integrators can Learn From Slack and HipChat

The past few years have seen the SaaS implementation model shift. Here's what HipChat and Slack can teach us about implementation and system integrators.

February 12, 2016

by Olga Annenko

· 5,824 Views · 3 Likes

Enable Docker Remote API on Docker Machine on Mac OS X

Check out how to enable the Docker Remote REST API on a Docker Machine running on Mac OS X in this neat tutorial!

February 12, 2016

by Arun Gupta

· 9,632 Views · 2 Likes

Why Bug Injection Rates Matter

A new source of waste in code to examine: the bug injection rate, and what testing teams can do about it.

February 10, 2016

by Matthew Heusser

· 7,336 Views · 5 Likes

Implement Custom JMeter Samplers

Stress testing tools are much more necessary in today's environment of complex architecture. Apache JMeter is one of these awesome tools, offering great load-testing capabilities. Here's an example of implementing custom JMeter samplers!

February 9, 2016

by Emmanouil Gkatziouras

CORE

· 25,670 Views · 5 Likes

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