Databases Resources

Increased Analytics at the API Client and SDK Level

API providers are including more analytics services...but are the features more about data generation than they are about analytics?

October 7, 2016

by Kin Lane

· 3,702 Views · 1 Like

The Different Reasons Behind Why We Craft API Definitions

Kin Lane explains the process behind creating API definitions as a learning tool and considers why we craft API definitions.

October 7, 2016

by Kin Lane

· 2,836 Views · 2 Likes

MongoDB: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

This cheatsheet gives a quick overview of what's good about MongoDB, what's not so good, and what might send you running for the hills.

October 6, 2016

by Darel Lasrado

· 67,963 Views · 14 Likes

NEST and UNNEST: Normalizing and Denormalizing JSON on the Fly

This article details a variety of nesting and unnesting procedures you can implement in Couchbase's N1QL to organize and query your data.

October 6, 2016

by Johan Larson

· 33,167 Views · 14 Likes

An Integrations Page for Your API Solution

Kin Lane shares his thoughts about how you can be sure that you are keeping up with all of the new API service providers.

October 6, 2016

by Kin Lane

· 2,695 Views · 3 Likes

SpringData: Property Traversal

In this article, Shamik Mitra will discuss the details of the "Queryname," derivation technique.

October 5, 2016

by Shamik Mitra

· 6,636 Views · 3 Likes

Migrating EJB2 Entity Beans to EJB3 and JPA

Impossible is nothing. Read on to learn how to migrate all of the EJB2 Entity Beans from a legacy project to EJB3 Entity Beans with JPA.

October 5, 2016

by Eugen Hoble

· 13,985 Views · 4 Likes

An Opinionless Comparison of Spring and Guice

One developer maps out the features of both Spring and Guide from a dependency injection angle to see which one comes out on top.

October 4, 2016

by Nikhil Wanpal

· 38,820 Views · 28 Likes

5 Basic REST API Design Guidelines

These guidelines from Guy Levin are intended to help you in creating clean, easy to use, and easily understandable APIs.

October 4, 2016

by Guy Levin

· 62,334 Views · 60 Likes

Results of the Ultimate REST API Challenge

SmartBear Software launched the Ultimate REST API Challenge for two weeks. Here are the answers to the eight-question quiz, with explanations for each one.

October 4, 2016

by Rema Alyahya

· 4,025 Views · 1 Like

12 Factors and Beyond in Java

Get a sense of estimating the skills, knowledge of users, and developers. Invest adequately in the understanding of the existing codebase.

October 4, 2016

by Pieter Humphrey

CORE

· 30,776 Views · 15 Likes

IBM i Business Logic API With Mule

I walk through the process of exposing IBM i Business logic via APIs using Mulesoft Anypoint platform and Web Transaction Framework.

October 4, 2016

by Dmitriy Kuznetsov

· 4,323 Views · 2 Likes

Using the super_read_only System Variable

This blog post will discuss how to use the MySQL super_read_only system variable to prevent people from making unauthorized DML queries on your slave servers.

October 3, 2016

by Pablo Padua

· 10,288 Views · 1 Like

The Data Preparation Checklist: 6 Questions to Ask

This article covers best practices to simplify the data preparation process and increase its effectiveness.

October 3, 2016

by Eran Levy

· 5,295 Views · 2 Likes

Reactive Microservices: Driving Application Modernization Efforts

Traditional enterprises are forced to rethink how they build applications because of rapidly changing use-cases and new requirements.

October 2, 2016

by Markus Eisele

· 22,987 Views · 30 Likes

API Design With Java 8

Learn to be a better Java programmer by mastering Java 8 API design, exposing a well-designed API, making sure that client code can use lambdas, and more.

September 30, 2016

by Per-Åke Minborg

· 100,741 Views · 165 Likes