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7 Reasons Why Open-Source Elassandra (Cassandra + Elasticsearch) Is Worth a Look

By offering greater reliability and efficiency than its separate components, Elassandra presents an efficient new opportunity.

April 29, 2018

by Ben Slater

· 35,501 Views · 10 Likes

Best SecOps Tools: 50 Must-Have Tools for Your SecOps Arsenal, Part 1

Looking for some great new tools to help you better understand where your software is vulnerable and to hunt out viruses? Read on for some great options.

April 21, 2018

by Christian Lappin

· 5,752 Views · 3 Likes

7 Code Merge Tools to Make Your Life 7x Easier

These open source and proprietary tools will help save you time and improve efficiency in your code merges.

April 19, 2018

by Ben Putano

· 33,019 Views · 11 Likes

Waiting for Another Thread With CyclicBarrier

Let's outline the ideal scenarios and steps involved when invoking CyclicBarrier to wait for threads, or when other classes might be better.

Updated April 16, 2018

by Thomas Krieger

· 17,792 Views · 11 Likes

50+ Useful Docker Tools

As containers take root, dozens of tools have sprung up to support them. Check out your options for orchestration, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, and more!

Updated April 12, 2018

by JP La Torre

· 55,920 Views · 33 Likes

Blockchain Implementation With Java Code

Let's take a look at a possible blockchain implementation using Java. We build up from first principles and develop some code to help show how it all fits together.

April 12, 2018

by David Pitt

· 58,265 Views · 31 Likes

Apache Cassandra and Apache Ignite: Selecting the Right Distributed Database Solution

Sometimes Apache Cassandra and Apache Ignite complement each other. But sometimes, a single solution is better.

April 10, 2018

by Nikita Ivanov

· 13,283 Views · 6 Likes

A Complete Introduction to Kubernetes

What tool orchestrates your containers with ease? KU-BER-NE-TES! You nodes and your ports, everything in between? KU-BER-NE-TES!

April 10, 2018

by Shashank Rastogi

· 32,756 Views · 11 Likes

New QR Code Reader Library

Learn about a new, free QR code reader and associated library that improve performance and let you take advantage of QR for more innovative purposes.

April 3, 2018

by Peter Abeles

· 36,547 Views · 2 Likes

What Future Java Releases Mean for Legacy Desktop Apps

Java 11 will mean the end of Java Web Start. Let's see what this means for legacy desktop apps and how developers can be ready for the change.

March 31, 2018

by Hendrik Ebbers

· 56,193 Views · 27 Likes

Selenium vs. Watir

Learn about the features and advantages of these two tools that will help you choose between them for your test automation framework.

March 29, 2018

by Federico Toledo

· 15,365 Views · 7 Likes

Running Vert.x Microservices on Kubernetes/OpenShift

Learn how to implement Vert.X, a reactive microservices framework, on Kubernetes in an OpenShift environment.

March 23, 2018

by Piotr Mińkowski

· 7,555 Views · 6 Likes

What Security Techniques and Tools Are Most Effective?

Security experts and IT executives told us that continuous threat management tools with real-time visibility and response are the most effective.

March 21, 2018

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 17,246 Views · 3 Likes

Eclipse JNoSQL: A Quick Overview of Redis, Cassandra, Couchbase, and Neo4j

In the NoSQL world, there are 4 types of databases: key-value, column, document, and graph. Each one has a particular purpose, level of scalability, and model complexity.

Updated March 16, 2018

by Otavio Santana

CORE

· 14,342 Views · 10 Likes

Serverless Application with Google Flutter and Lambda

Here is everything that you need to get started with Flutter by compiling a movie rendering website on for your mobile device.

March 16, 2018

by Mohamed Labouardy

· 14,073 Views · 5 Likes

Gatling Performance Testing Pros and Cons

If you've been on the fence about using Gatling for your performance testing, take a look at the ups and downs that come with using the Scala-based testing tool.

March 16, 2018

by Matias Fornara

· 10,819 Views · 1 Like

Designing APIs With Apicurio Studio

In this post, we take a look at an open source tool that provides a visual, click-driven approach to API design and development.

March 15, 2018

by Lukas Rosenstock

· 14,939 Views · 3 Likes

Hello OpenJ9 on Windows, I Didn’t Expect You so Soon!

Move over HotSpot, there's a new JVM on the block. See how to get OpenJ9 running on Windows and how it can help with your Java projects.

March 14, 2018

by Holger Voormann

· 18,269 Views · 10 Likes

Orange: A Handy Open-Source Tool for Creating Machine Learning Models

Orange is an extremely easy-to-use, lightweight, drag-and-drop tool for building machine learning models and analyzing data. More importantly, it is open source!

March 13, 2018

by Sibanjan Das

CORE

· 15,738 Views · 12 Likes

Logging With the Elastic Stack

It's imperative to have a system that can analyze large amounts of logs and present a singular view. Centralized logging provided by the Elastic Stack is a step in the right direction.

March 5, 2018

by Vaibhav Raizada

CORE

· 13,570 Views · 13 Likes

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