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Monitoring Microservices With Health Checks

Learn about the importance of health checks for your microservices, what cases and metrics to check, and how to document them.

March 6, 2018

by Peter Arijs

· 37,959 Views · 7 Likes

10 Essentials Tools and Libraries for Software Developers

These ten tools and libraries are the basis for a developers' skills. Check out the list and where you can get started expanding your skills.

March 6, 2018

by Javin Paul

· 44,610 Views · 33 Likes

Spring Cloud Stream With Kafka

In this post, we take a look at how you can build a real-time streaming microservices application by using Spring Cloud Stream and Kafka.

March 6, 2018

by David Kiss

· 116,932 Views · 55 Likes

Gatling Tests Monitoring with Grafana and InfluxDB

Learn how to integrate the very powerful monitoring tool Gatling with Grafana and InfluxDB. Check out the full tutorial here!

March 5, 2018

by Yuri Bushnev

· 17,607 Views · 2 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

· 13,536 Views · 13 Likes

JMeter Distributed Testing with Docker

Distributed testing allows developers to perform multiple tests using the same JMX script in a containerized environment using Docker.

March 2, 2018

by Vincenzo Marrazzo

· 19,447 Views · 6 Likes

Running Ansible at Scale

Learn the ins and outs of how Ansible can work to solve your cloud automation needs, and how to bring Ansible automation up to scale.

February 28, 2018

by Darryl Anderson

· 10,440 Views · 2 Likes

Creating a Chat Application Using React and ASP.NET Core - Part 3

We continue our in-depth look at using React.js and ASP.NET Core to create a chat app by looking at websockets and SignalR.

Updated February 26, 2018

by Juergen Gutsch

· 16,213 Views · 3 Likes

Go Microservices, Part 1: Building Microservices With Go

In this series, learn to build microservices using Go and add integrations to help them run on Docker Swarm within a Spring Cloud/Netflix OSS landscape.

February 26, 2018

by Erik Lupander

· 67,616 Views · 40 Likes

Serverless Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda

Get started on executing a program that will allow you to take card payments using the cloud and client-side tokenization.

February 26, 2018

by Yos Riady

· 16,484 Views · 5 Likes

How to Build a 3D Printer in Python

This awesome project will teach you how to create your own 3D printer using Python and a Rasperry Pi, in addition to a few other tools.

February 25, 2018

by Nikolay Khabarov

· 20,177 Views · 10 Likes

Using AWS S3 for Database Backup Storage

Database backups allow restoring upon database failures and recovering from data corruption. AWS S3 is an affordable, highly durable and reliable storage option.

February 23, 2018

by Ashan Fernando

· 16,623 Views · 3 Likes

Introducing the Maven git commit id Plugin

Tired of wondering which version of your software is running in an environment? Say hello to the Maven git commit id plugin.

February 23, 2018

by Gunter Rotsaert

CORE

· 136,451 Views · 19 Likes

Kubernetes Monitoring: Best Practices, Methods, and Existing Solutions

Kubernetes handles containers in several computers, removing the complexity of handling distributed processing. But what's the best way to perform Kubernetes monitoring?

Updated February 23, 2018

by Daniel Berman

· 18,163 Views · 4 Likes

Simple Java Program to Append to a File in HDFS

Get the code and instructions needed to build a Java program to append to a file in HDFS, using Maven as the build tool.

February 23, 2018

by Simarpreet Kaur Monga

· 17,535 Views · 4 Likes

Distributed Sagas for Microservices

Learn about using the distributed saga pattern and AWS Step Functions to ensure correctness and consistency in your microservices.

Updated February 22, 2018

by Yos Riady

· 85,202 Views · 31 Likes

Top 5 Alternatives to Selenium

Get one software tester's take on the best free or freemium testing frameworks and their unique benefits in this list of the top 5.

February 21, 2018

by Karthik Amirapu

· 45,616 Views · 13 Likes

A/B Testing With Kubernetes and Istio

See how you can use Kubernetes and Istio together to implement A/B testing in your app so that you can measure user response and make the best decisions.

February 20, 2018

by Niklas Heidloff

CORE

· 8,737 Views · 2 Likes