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Five things only experienced developers can teach you about Java
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How to capture a heap dump
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Multi-modal NoSQL and cloud based microservices hot topics at JavaOne 2016
- Community Member 01 Nov 2016
An overview of everything you need to know before diving deep into developing Java
Heap dump is a snapshot of the Java memory. It contains information about the Java objects and classes in the heap at the moment the snapshot is triggered. It’s vital artifact to diagnose any Java mem
From cloud based microservices to multi-modal NoSQL, there was plenty to learn, propose, and discuss at JavaOne 2016
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Advanced container architectures: Kubernetes clouds and distributed Docker deployments
21 Oct 2016 -
The curse of Project Jigsaw: Why is Java 9 delayed again?
20 Oct 2016 -
How to engage future generations of programmers with Java
19 Oct 2016 -
Understanding the need for continuous deployment
19 Oct 2016 -
IBM promotes microservice architectures as key way to "Make Java Great Again"
16 Oct 2016 -
Mobile integration a bigger development pain-point than social, security and maintenance combined
14 Oct 2016 -
The OverOps Story: It's the end of log files as we know it
14 Oct 2016
Be it AWS or Azure, cloud providers on both ends are making it easy to take Docker and Kubernetes architectures to the cloud.
JDK 9 release date is postponed to July 2017
As every JavaOne conference makes clear, Java is going to be around long after the current crop of attendees has been rendered obsolete.
Today, most organizations find it challenging to innovate quickly enough to satisfy all of their consumers. DevOps is a set of principles that tries to solve this problem with the ultimate goal of ach
Being heavily vested in Java technology, it's always interesting to see what Big Blue is doing to move the Java platform forward.
Many companies are simply outsourcing their mobile development needs because they don’t have the staff expertise in-house to handle native iOS or Android programming. But is this a sustainable approac
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IoT security tips: Five ways developers can help thwart IoT malware threats
12 Oct 2016 -
Microservice APIs the key to middleware management and container deployments
11 Oct 2016 -
CERN: Where Java technology and particle accelerators collide
07 Oct 2016 -
What we learned about the world of Java from the JavaOne 2016 keynotes
04 Oct 2016 -
Intel espouses their commitment to the JDK at JavaOne 2016
03 Oct 2016 -
Feature by feature comparison between Hadoop-MapReduce and Apache Spark
03 Oct 2016 -
AngularJS vs ReactJS : What's good for your business?
03 Oct 2016 -
How to Choose the Right Log Management Tool?
03 Oct 2016 -
Introducing Lightbend Fast Data Platform
03 Oct 2016 -
A new high throughput java executor service
03 Oct 2016 -
Hystrix Integration with Existing Spring Application
03 Oct 2016 -
Need for Continuous Integration
03 Oct 2016 -
Software engineering lessons to be learned through Mars exploration
01 Oct 2016 -
Transitioning Java EE to the cloud now more of a priority than ever
- TechTarget 21 Sep 2016 -
Docker soon to have the Java platform contained
- TechTarget 20 Sep 2016 -
JavaOne 2016: What's driving digital transformation?
- Features Writer 20 Sep 2016 -
From Jenkins World to JavaOne, Docker and container technology pervades
- TechTarget 20 Sep 2016 -
Mobile pushes CI innovation with Jenkins and Gradle tools
15 Sep 2016 -
Jenkins, DevOps, Microservices and Containers: Preparing developers for tomorrow's technologies
15 Sep 2016 -
JUnit vs TestNG - Which testing framework should you choose?
15 Sep 2016 -
The complete guide to instrumentation: How to measure everything
15 Sep 2016 -
Memory analysis – How to obtain Java heap dump?
15 Sep 2016 -
What’s new in Docker? The top 5 features you should know
06 Sep 2016 -
Would you configure the Maven release plugin to skip tests?
06 Sep 2016 -
A cloud, data quality service for both real-time and batch data
06 Sep 2016 -
Enabling and analysing the garbage collection log
06 Sep 2016 -
Governance isn't enough when it comes to designing secure software
23 Aug 2016 -
AWS Lambda for serverless Java developers: What's in It for You?
23 Aug 2016 -
Performance improvements of contended Java monitor from JDK 6 to 9
23 Aug 2016 -
A new trilogy: The enterprise architect's intro to microservices
23 Aug 2016 -
Understanding the Java memory model and garbage collection
23 Aug 2016 -
New DevOps tooling and expanding DevOps definition causing blurred lines in IT
19 Aug 2016 -
Making web UI testing great again with Arquillian, Docker and Selenium
19 Aug 2016 -
StatsD vs collectd vs fluentd: Don't let these daemons haunt you
19 Aug 2016 -
From Bamboo to Jenkins, 2016 means continuously integrating
14 Aug 2016 -
Will Apache Spark-Streaming replace Apache Storm?
14 Aug 2016 -
Java NullPointerException: The One Tiny Thing That's Killing Your Chances of Solving It
14 Aug 2016 -
System Observability: How to Make Your Production Environment Great Again
14 Aug 2016 -
Install and Run Apache Spark 2.x
14 Aug 2016 -
The build manager is on life support. Call Gradle for some CPR
08 Aug 2016 -
Mobile Application Development Tools
08 Aug 2016 -
Stackoverflow: 7 of the Best Java Answers That You Haven’t Seen
08 Aug 2016 -
Who will be the Successor of Hadoop: Apache Spark or Apache Flink
08 Aug 2016 -
Capturing a thread dump
08 Aug 2016 -
Groovy for Java Developers?! Meet Gradle, Grails and Spock
08 Aug 2016 -
Git Tutorial – The Ultimate Guide
08 Aug 2016 -
Java Exceptions Cheat Sheet
08 Aug 2016 -
The Law of Demeter doesn't mean one dot
03 Aug 2016 -
Java on steroids: 5 super useful JIT optimization techniques
03 Aug 2016 -
Devs are from Venus, Ops are from Mars: ECS Containers
03 Aug 2016 -
Fully automatic live reloading of Spring Boot apps on AWS
03 Aug 2016 -
Two Easy Sources of Customer Insights To Improve User Experience
03 Aug 2016 -
CI versus CI: Does Continuous Integration lead to Continuous Improvement?
25 Jul 2016 -
What do you think of TheServerSide's fresh new look?
- TechTarget 19 Jul 2016 -
Choose your own adventure: Ottinger's advice about simple code and complex models
- TechTarget 12 Jul 2016 -
About the blog
05 Jul 2016 -
Future-proofing your applications: Fix it now, not later
- Editorial Assistant 14 Jun 2016 -
The first steps of understanding mobile security
- Editorial Assistant 09 Jun 2016 -
How would you define the term IDE?
- TechTarget 24 May 2016 -
The DevOps train has arrived and it's time to hop on
- Editorial Assistant 24 May 2016 -
Big data isn't going to go mainstream, it's already there
- Editorial Assistant 19 May 2016 -
How big data can help your enterprise
- Editorial Assistant 11 May 2016 -
What does Android look like from a Mountain View? Insights on Google I/O
- TechTarget 10 May 2016 -
APM and programming does not need to be that hard
- Editorial Assistant 05 May 2016 -
Jenkins 2.0: A drama free, full increment release of the popular CI tool
- TechTarget 29 Apr 2016
From device spoofing to malware, information disclosure, and DOS attacks, there are many ways a compromised device can become a threat. Here are ways to keep your devices safe.
For consumers and creators of middleware, microservices, and APIs, the future is bound to be complex. But it will be full of examples of big business taking risks to get it right.
At JavaOne 2016, CERN software engineer Ben Wolff discussed the important role Java plays in the world of advanced physics.
JavaOne 2016 keynotes pulled from a variety of topics from health research to Mars exploration. Here's what those keynotes taught us.
Hardware manufacturer Intel has always had an affection for Java based software. At JavaOne 2016, Michael Greene revealed the depths of their commitment.
In this guide we will cover what is difference between Spark and Hadoop MapReduce, how Spark is 100x faster than MapReduce. This comprehensive guide will provide feature wise comparison between Spark.
AngularJS is managed by Google and ReactJS is owned by Facebook. Both of them are unique and resourceful in their own ways. Lets see whats better for your business.
Sumo Logic vs Graylog vs Loggly vs PaperTrail vs Logentries vs Stackify
Lightbend announces a new, guided approach for enterprises to better manage 'data in motion' for streaming applications
The new vmlens opens source executor service uses a wait-free, lock-free, algorithm for submitting tasks
In this article we will look at how to integrate Hystrix into an existing Spring application with the help of Spring AOP.
According to wikipedia “Continuous integration (CI) is the practice, in software engineering, of merging all developer working copies with a shared mainline several times a day.”.
At JavaOne, NASA Aerospace Engineer Dr. Anita Sengupta shared space exploration lessons that apply to all areas of engineering.
Enterprise Java was a topic of intense focus during the opening keynote at the JavaOne 2016 conference this year. As expected, Oracle had many proposals for how the EE platform can be made more ...
While Java and the JDK are all 'steady as she goes' at JavaOne, Docker and container talk generate excitement.
Why is customers' rapid adoption of mobile devices and social media is spurring an increase in businesses' digital transformation.
What's hot in the world of Java development? Hands down, it's container technology, as evidenced by the attention it has garnered at both JavaOne and Jenkins World.
Sometimes it's a disrputive technology that changes tools and technologies for the better.
In an era when technology is changing at lightning speed, it’s hard for mere mortals to keep up. This is as true for software developers as for anyone else.
JUnit vs TestNG: The testing frameworks showdown
What’s instrumentation and why do you need it in your application?
In this article we will see how to obtain the Java Heap Dump to troubleshoot the memory issues like memory leak and high usage of memory. There are different options available to obtain the Heap Dump.
What’s new in Docker and how it can affect your code?
Learn how you can make Maven Release Plugin not executing tests twice
data quality
As a developer every one will get a question on enabling the GC log on production servers. Is it advisable to enable GC log on production server?
As blue tooth enabled storage devices move in and out of secured facilities, organizations must realize that governance isn't enough.
How can serverless computing help your production infrastructure?
According to our benchmark, JDK 9 leads to a 60 percent improvement in the performance of Contended Java Monitor.
A three-part guide for architect's modernizing from monolith to microservices on the JVM
Lets learn what are the different memory areas available for JVM and the Garbage Collection process.
As DevOps matures, with the help of CI and CD tools, roles and responsibilities continue to shift. For developers, this evolution into DevOps culture provides an opportunity to gain perspective.
Most of the time when you need to write functional tests/end-to-end tests for web UI, you end up by using Selenium, which it can consider the de-facto tool in Java world for web UI testing.
What are some of the most popular daemons and what can they do?
Be it new tools from Atlassian, or Jenkins upgrades, developers have more options than ever when it comes to Continuous Integration.
Apache Storm and Spark-Streaming both are streaming system, as spark is becoming very popular, will it replace Storm ?
What is one of the biggest shortcomings in standard exception reporting?
Observability is not just about monitoring your system, it’s about understanding it
Apache Spark is next gen Big Data tool, Recently Apache released a major upgrade of Spark from 1.6 to 2.0
The role of the build manager has gone out of style, but in a world of increasingly complicated deployments, maybe it's time time for a resurrection?
The mobile application development tools helps to build the innovative mobile app that opens up new business opportunities.
What are some of the most interesting answers you can find on Stackoverflow?
Comparison between Apache Spark and Apache Flink. Apache spark and Apache Flink both are open source platform for batch processing as well as streaming processing
fastThread is an universal thread dump analyser. It parses complex thread dumps and presents with you with insightful metrics and beautiful graphs.
What are some of the most interesting Groovy use cases for Java developers?
Git is, without any doubt, the most popular version control system. Ironically, there are other version control systems easier to learn and to use, but, despite that,
A collection of tips and insights for handling Java exceptions
The well-known Law of Demeter is seriously misunderstood by object-oriented programmers - it isn't equal to the law of one dot.
What are some of the most useful JVM JIT optimizations and how to use them?
This article begins a series about Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Container Service, which is Amazon’s answer to managing a cluster of Docker containers.
In this post we're going to take a look at one of Spring Boot's best kept secrets: the Spring Boot DevTools.
Understanding how your customers use your app is critical to improving UX. Web analytics and CSR teams provide great opportunities to gather these insights easily and for low cost.
It's one thing to install Jenkins and boast about being progressive. But is your CI actually leading you to continuous improvement?
Surely you've noticed? Everything is fresh, and there's entire list of new features. Here's a rundown on what's changed and why.
Java programs shouldn't read like a choose your own adventure novel. Joe Ottinger espouses the value of both advancing the language and keeping things simple.
Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns.
Future-proofing is an important because the cost of re-work can skyrocket if the right provisions aren't in place. IT professionals may be in the race to meet time-to-market pressures but ...
We live in a very mobile heavy society and many enterprises have mobility at the center of their IT strategy. As such, it can't help to understand mobile security better and equipping your ...
Every experienced software developer knows what an IDE is, but how would one define the term to someone just learning about IT?
DevOps have been an exciting shift in the technological landscape and if you haven't already jumped on the bandwagon, perhaps it's time your organization does.
Big data is undeniably becoming more wide-spread as it continues to grow. Part of the reason for that is because many things are fueling big data, but what's interesting is that big data, in ...
Big data is defined as "any voluminous amount of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data that has the potential to be mined for information." That's great, that means all businesses need ...
So,they've moved the Google I/O conference away from downtown San Francisco out to Mountain View where Google has a big stake in the Shoreline Amphitheater. I've got mixed emotions on the move.
We live in an information society where new advancements have consistently made the technological landscape an exciting one. And programming obviously plays a crucial role in making these new ...
A full increment release is usually a big deal. I mean, just recall for a moment all of the hoopla surrounding Java's last full increment release... Actually, there's never been a full increment ...