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Gracefully Shutting Down Java in Containers

Let's look at some lessons learned about gracefully shutting down Java programs in the worlds of Docker, Kubernetes, and enterprise integration.

September 15, 2017

by Janaka Bandara

· 36,536 Views · 13 Likes

Using Avro for Big Data and Data Streaming Architectures: An Introduction

Avro provides fast, compact data serialization. Get tips for using it with Kafka and Hadoop, learn about schemas in Avro, and more.

September 14, 2017

by Jean-Paul Azar

· 20,440 Views · 5 Likes

Code Smells: If Statements

This comprehensive guide considers when if statements become a problem and the steps you can take to refactor your code.

September 14, 2017

by Trisha Gee

· 193,270 Views · 57 Likes

Updating InnoDB Table Statistics Manually

As a support engineer, I often see situations in which the cardinality of a table is not correct. And often, this must be fixed manually. Here's a trick for doing it!

September 13, 2017

by Sveta Smirnova

· 7,783 Views · 1 Like

Setting Up a Mobile Automation Project in macOS With Katalon Studio

This tutorial will teach you how to design automated tests for both your iOS mobile applications with Katalon Studio.

September 10, 2017

by Oliver Howard

· 8,334 Views · 15 Likes

An Introduction to Continuous Integration and Workflows

Learn about the benefits of continuous integration in the software development lifecycle, and how to achieve it using Jenkins and Maven plugins.

September 7, 2017

by Rekha Sree

· 15,454 Views · 5 Likes

A Service Mesh For Kubernetes Part XI: Egress

We've seen how Linkerd can serve as an ingress to a Kubernetes cluster, but it can also serve as an egress as well. Here's how to configure it.

September 6, 2017

by Alex Leong

· 5,625 Views · 4 Likes

The Skinny on Fat, Thin, Hollow, and Uber

Here's just about everything you could want to know about your favorite packaging techniques for Java—skinny JARs, fat/uber JARs, thin JARS, and hollow JARs.

September 5, 2017

by James Falkner

· 40,975 Views · 10 Likes

MQTT Security: Securing a Mosquitto Server

Learn how to encrypt your data for its transit via MQTT. We'll use Mosquitto MQTT Server for this experiment in IoT protocol security.

September 5, 2017

by Francesco Azzola

· 50,384 Views · 5 Likes

Git: To Squash or Not to Squash?

Take a quick look at the benefits and downsides to squashing all the commits on a given feature branch to just one commit.

September 4, 2017

by Steven Schwenke

· 25,239 Views · 5 Likes

How to Run a Docker Container on Your Local Machine

This quick walkthrough will show you how to dockerize and run an Angular2 app in a container on your local machine, with frequently used Docker commands.

September 4, 2017

by Suleyman Yildirim

· 172,671 Views · 4 Likes

What Is javax.ws.rs.core.context? (Part 4)? [Snippets]

Continuing with our journey of the @Context annotation, let's see how you can inject Servlet request and response classes into your Java EE projects.

September 1, 2017

by Alex Theedom

· 8,010 Views · 5 Likes

Different RAML 1.0 Behavior in Mule Anypoint Platform and Studio

MuleSoft platforms act differently for RAML specifications 0.8 and 1.0. This is important to know for developers using Mule; take a look at the details here.

September 1, 2017

by Rakesh Kumar Jha

· 9,511 Views · 6 Likes

Deploying and Running MySQL on Kubernetes With Statefulsets and Kops

Learn how to use Portworx on an AWS Kubernetes cluster using kops to bootstrap the cluster, with a focus on running a MySQL server and dealing with a failover scenario.

September 1, 2017

by Kai Davenport

· 19,803 Views · 2 Likes

JArchitect: A Review

This review of JArchitect covers its use as a software analysis tool, its potential uses, its position within the Java ecosystem, and where it falls short.

September 1, 2017

by Federico Tomassetti

· 14,068 Views · 9 Likes