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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

How to Run Maven-Based Projects on a Remote Raspberry Pi Using NetBeans (Part 2)

Continuing on from part one, learn how to get your repository to work for you by running external commands from Maven to get your project on a Pi.

November 21, 2016

by Ken Fogel

· 10,013 Views · 1 Like

Git Behind the Curtain: What Happens When You Commit, Branch, and Merge

Keith Gregory discusses object management, branches, merges, SHA-1, Git, and more in this talk script. Read on to learn all you need to know!

November 15, 2016

by Keith Gregory

· 29,955 Views · 21 Likes

Encrypting InnoDB

Learn how you can encrypt InnoDB using some handy plugins and how you can expect the added security to hit performance.

November 11, 2016

by Jan Lindstrom

· 8,188 Views · 1 Like

Joining the Big Leagues: Tuning Jenkins GC for Responsiveness and Stability

Learn how to tune Jenkins Java settings to make your masters more responsive and stable, especially with large heap sizes.

November 11, 2016

by Samuel Van Oort

· 9,423 Views · 3 Likes

Building Docker Images With Puppet

Now available from Puppet is the ability to create Docker images via Puppet code. Read on to find out how to use it and where to get it.

November 11, 2016

by Gareth Rushgrove

· 7,461 Views · 4 Likes

Java Annotated Monthly: Oracle Appeals, Updates on Java 9, and a Kotlin Cheatsheet

Take a look at the latest Java developments, including more on the Oracle case, Java 8, 9, and 10 updates, and more on Kotlin.

November 9, 2016

by Trisha Gee

· 8,317 Views · 9 Likes

Does InnoDB Page Size Matter?

Jan Lindstrom tests the InnoDB page size setting on a certain benchmark to determine if it has a significant performance effect.

November 8, 2016

by Jan Lindstrom

· 4,644 Views · 3 Likes

How We Implemented Object Storage to Power an Image Management Service

Rethumb uses DreamObjects to handle vast amounts of image data reliably and with low latency. This article shows the technical aspects behind how it was developed.

November 3, 2016

by Pedro Verruma

· 10,750 Views · 2 Likes

DevOps: The Three Stage Conversation of People, Process, Products

This post elaborates on the three most important stages of conversation in DevOps, which are people, process, and products.

November 2, 2016

by Mohamed Radwan

· 7,415 Views · 2 Likes

Create Dynamic Relationships With APOC

See how the APOC library can be used to automatically create relationships when loading data.

November 1, 2016

by Mark Needham

· 9,657 Views · 2 Likes

Installing the ELK Stack on Windows

This article will guide you through the necessary steps to install the ELK Stack’s components as Windows services.

Updated October 31, 2016

by Daniel Berman

· 34,973 Views · 7 Likes

Monitoring OS Metrics for Amazon RDS with Grafana

This article describes how to visualize and monitor OS metrics for Amazon RDS instances using Grafana.

October 31, 2016

by Roman Vynar

· 9,509 Views

Neo4j: Dynamically Add Property/Set Dynamic Property

In this post, we find out how to add dynamic properties to nodes in Neo4j via Cypher. Read on for more details!

October 30, 2016

by Mark Needham

· 11,434 Views · 2 Likes

How to Turn Your GitHub Page Into a Personalized Resume

It's incredibly easy to get your own GitHub CV. In this article, Rob Hinds explains the process behind making his and explains how you can make your own.

October 29, 2016

by Rob Hinds

· 50,381 Views · 48 Likes

How to Run a Daemon Service in the Foreground

Sometimes, you simply need to run a Daemon process in the foreground. Why? How? Find out in this article from Denny Zhang.

October 29, 2016

by Denny Zhang

· 18,015 Views

Headless Execution of Selenium Tests in Jenkins

In this article, you'll learn all about running Selenium tests in “headless” mode, i.e., when no browser window is being displayed.

October 27, 2016

by Dmitri Tikhanski

· 23,616 Views · 1 Like

Spring Boot Application Live Reload (Hot Swap) With Intellij IDEA

Check out this quick code snippet to get hot swapping up and running for your Spring Boot app. Tired of having to exit out and restart after every change? No more.

October 24, 2016

by Aruna Karunarathna

· 119,685 Views · 24 Likes