Software development techniques and Agile methodologies

Tutorial - To master the Apache Tomcat server, administrators and developers need to be familiar with installation, configuration, logging and performance optimization

Feature - Graphic analysis of big data problems can often uncover hidden trends that might otherwise be difficult to see. The Yale graph DB project makes this graphic analysis possible.

Feature - Software developers are demanding APIs that are delivered in a RESTful, resource based way, and one way to do that is by building with the RESTlet framework.

Feature - Developing complex service oriented systems is a challenge, but with insight from the author of the best selling publication "SOA Patterns," many of the common challenges and problems can be easily covercome

Feature - The key to success as a software consultant is using a productivity log that can demonstrate how much time and effort has been put into a project, while also explaining away non-productive time consuming activities.

Feature - While many NoSQL solutions are open source, the lack of standards means any organization embracing a given solution may never have the ability to easily change to another competing solution.

Tutorial - Content management systems that need to sift through huge amounts of data are big data problems in need of a solution. Fortunately, projects like Hadoop and MapReduce are coming to the rescue.

Feature - As Hadoop evolves, complimentary technologies such as Hive, Mahout, HBase and Cassandra are allowing software engineers get more and more out of commodity hardware.

Feature - Service orientation is about more than developing components, and software engineering solutions depend on knowing how services work in the real world.

Feature - The author of SOA patterns discusses the two most common problems hurting SOA development projects.