Open Source Resources for Engineers

Observability vs. Monitoring

While used interchangeably, these terms have slightly different meanings.

March 19, 2019

by Steve Waterworth

· 25,035 Views · 6 Likes

Enum Tricks: Two Ways to Extend Enum Functionality

Learn more about the power of enums!

March 15, 2019

by Alexander Radzin

· 126,392 Views · 9 Likes

Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL: Part 2 — Replication Manager

Are you deploying PostgreSQL in the cloud and want to understand your options for achieving high availability?

March 13, 2019

by Madan Kumar

· 9,658 Views · 2 Likes

Five Skills Needed to Master Your Role in HPC

New to a role in High Performance Computing (HPC)? Find out the top five skills that you’ll need to succeed.

Updated March 12, 2019

by Jeff Reser

· 7,512 Views · 3 Likes

JMeter Tutorial for Beginners

Get started with load testing in this JMeter tutorial.

March 12, 2019

by Sayantini Deb

· 13,568 Views · 2 Likes

Why True End-To-End Encryption is Important for Distributed Apps

A greater interconnectivity between devices and a prevalence of distributed apps makes end-to-end encryption crucial.

March 11, 2019

by Sandra Chrust

· 8,074 Views · 2 Likes

Comparing Serverless Architecture Providers: AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, and Other FaaS Vendors

This comparison between the largest serverless vendors (and some open source alternatives) has all the right metrics.

March 8, 2019

by Ihor Lobastov

· 49,656 Views · 13 Likes

Improve Microservice Testing With Contract Testing

A tutorial on how to conduct better microservices tests and how the open source PactJS library can help test microservices designed in several languages.

March 5, 2019

by Francisco Moreno

CORE

· 19,919 Views · 6 Likes

How We Built an Asynchronous, Temporal RESTful API Based on Vert.x, Keycloak and Kotlin/Coroutines for Sirix.io (Open Source)

Check out how you can build an asychronous RESTful API using Sirix, Vert.x, and Keycloakis.

Updated March 5, 2019

by Johannes Lichtenberger

· 6,174 Views · 4 Likes

Step-By-Step Guide to Setting up A Local SuiteCRM Instance

Check out the easy installation and configuration process for installing SugarCRM locally.

Updated March 5, 2019

by Moiz Arif

· 6,694 Views · 5 Likes

Duplicate Objects in Java: Not Just Strings

Did you ever consider that instances of other classes can sometimes be duplicate and waste a considerable amount of memory?

February 27, 2019

by Misha Dmitriev

· 26,834 Views · 17 Likes

ASP.NET Core Response Compression

In this blog post, we show how to make response compression work in ASP.NET Core with the help of Brotli. Read on to get started!

February 20, 2019

by Gunnar Peipman

· 26,616 Views · 4 Likes

Test Automation Tools for Desktop Applications: Boxed vs. Open Source

Buckle up, this article takes a deep dive into the benefits, uses, and examples of using test automation for desktop apps.

February 14, 2019

by Alex Azarov

· 24,160 Views · 2 Likes

No Framework for Your Microservices?

We explore the reasoning behind using frameworks in microservices development before looking at how the OS framework, Axon, works.

February 11, 2019

by Frans van Buul

· 11,966 Views · 10 Likes

API Gateway to the Rescue

It is important to have a gateway deployed as a shield to your client facing application architectures. To understand why, read on!

February 8, 2019

by Akhil Raj

· 37,441 Views · 25 Likes

Open-Source IoT Edge Projects

Edge computing is a key trend this year in the IoT industry.

January 24, 2019

by Ian Skerrett

· 20,800 Views · 7 Likes

Apache Kafka + KSQL + TensorFlow for Data Scientists via Python + Jupyter Notebook

Why would a data scientist use Kafka Jupyter Python KSQL TensorFlow all together in a single notebook?

January 23, 2019

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 10,650 Views · 7 Likes

A Collection of Open Source Time Tracking Software

Check out this list to find you next favorite piece of time tracking software.

January 23, 2019

by Anna Usova

· 25,474 Views · 12 Likes

Open Standards vs. Open Source: Why So Confused While Choosing a Tech Stack?

Find out what each of these terms mean, and why they are so often confused.

January 21, 2019

by Spruha Pandya

· 7,378 Views · 5 Likes

Top Microservices Interview Questions and Answers, Part 1

We take a look at some questions you can expect to come across when interviewing for a microservices developer or architect role.

January 16, 2019

by Arnab Roy

· 347,102 Views · 23 Likes

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