Hazelcast is hands down a great caching tool when it comes to a JVM based application. If you use Amazon Web Services, Hazelcast integrates wonderfully.
Functional testing focuses on testing the interface of the application to ensure that all user requirements for a properly working application are met.
DataWeave is a powerful transformation language introduced with Mule Enterprise Edition 3.7. It allows you to transform data from one format to another and supports CSV, XML, JSON, Flat/Fixed Width (v3.8+) & Java. You can look at these DataWeave Examples to see it in action.
We all know the big goal is low coupling and high cohesion. But if asked to, could you write down what smells you would see to identify tightly coupled code?
Thomas Krieger shows how to test if your rest service is thread safe by analyzing a counter with a race condition and using a multi-threaded test runner.