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DevOps interview questions and answers PDF for experienced job applicants
- TechTarget 01 Jul 2018 -
An introduction to Scala functional programming
- Community Member 25 Jun 2018 -
Aging successfully in technology: Addressing the graying elephant in the room
- CogArtTech 16 Jun 2018
Looking for a DevOps interview questions and answers PDF for experienced job applicants? Here's a downloadable PDF of our original DevOps interview questions article.
Object-oriented programming has been the standard for years, but more and more use cases are demanding a functional programming approach to solving problems. In this tutorial, we will look at Scala ...
Is software development a game for the young? Despite maintaining a passion for programming and software development, seasoned veterans in their 40s and 50s are finding age is the new barrier to ...
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Introduction to Scala for enterprise Java developers
15 Jun 2018 -
ObjectOutputStream example: A Java object serialization tutorial
- TechTarget 13 Jun 2018 -
JPA and Hibernate enum mapping with annotations and the hbm.xml file
- TechTarget 13 Jun 2018 -
SOAP web services bottom-up approach example in Java using Eclipse
- TechTarget 08 Jun 2018 -
Top-down web service creation example in Java using Eclipse
- TechTarget 01 Jun 2018 -
How to git cherry-pick a commit example
- TechTarget 17 May 2018 -
Google positions 'Android Things' to solve the IoT problem
11 May 2018
This introduction to Scala programming will introduce you to a new way to program one the JVM. Scala rides atop the Java virtual machine. In compiles into Java bytecode. It can be packaged in Jar ...
Java object serialization is a feature of the JDK that is far too often overlooked. When a developer puts together a prototype or cooks up a proof of concept, simply saving a serialized Java object ...
Ever since they were introduced in Java 5, enums have been catching developers off guard. How do you perform JPA and Hibernate enum mapping with annotations or even XML files? It's actually not ...
It's easy to create a web service from a JavaBean. This SOAP web services bottom-up approach example in Java using Eclipse and Apache Axis will prove it.
Creating a SOAP web service in Eclipse is easy if you have a WSDL file. This top-down web service approach example in Java using Eclipse tutorial shows how.
One of the most commonly misunderstood version control commands is git cherry-pick, and that's a real shame because the ability to git cherry-pick a commit is one of the most useful skills a ...
Google's Android Things development Iokit turned v1.0 on Monday. I celebrated the birthday of the new tool that hopes to address IoT problems in development by belatedly attending a "What's New in ...
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Smart Compose and the Visual Positioning System impress at Google I/O
09 May 2018 -
Thwart threats by abiding to network security fundamentals
- Scrumtuous Inc. 27 Apr 2018 -
Borderless blockchain collaboration to change how software is developed
11 Apr 2018 -
Using Agile for hardware development to deliver products faster
- Scrumtuous Inc. 10 Apr 2018 -
Why the new Java 10 features list is so small
- TechTarget 22 Mar 2018 -
Acts of discrimination lets gender inequality in technology go unresolved
- Scrumtuous Inc. 08 Mar 2018 -
Re-introducing Jakarta EE: Eclipse takes Java EE back to its roots
27 Feb 2018 -
The things you need to know about managing cloud data
27 Feb 2018 -
Clear software development governance needed in this polyglot world
- TechTarget 21 Feb 2018 -
Top three mistakes new data scientists need to avoid
- Scrumtuous Inc. 01 Feb 2018 -
Developers, learn from the iPhone battery glitch
30 Jan 2018 -
Choosing the right container orchestration tool for your project
- Scrumtuous Inc. 23 Jan 2018 -
Cybersecurity risk management doesn’t need to be all or nothing
- Scrumtuous Inc. 22 Jan 2018 -
Women in Cybersecurity: Bringing Balance to the Equation
- Scrumtuous Inc. 14 Jan 2018 -
How to bring requirements management and software integration together
05 Jan 2018 -
Top seven ways to ruin an Agile or Scrum project
- Scrumtuous Inc. 30 Dec 2017 -
Is there a hidden threat embedded in the Management Engine of your Intel chip?
12 Dec 2017 -
DevOps for enterprise development a key theme at the Gartner Solutions Conference
- TechTarget 11 Dec 2017 -
Twelve ways to be a more trustworthy serverless services vendor
- Scrumtuous Inc. 22 Nov 2017 -
From monoliths to cloud native composition
- TechTarget 06 Nov 2017 -
Seven mistakes digital transformation projects must avoid
06 Nov 2017 -
Why effective DevOps needs maneuverability more than speed
03 Nov 2017 -
The right five questions to ask before purchasing CRM software
31 Oct 2017 -
Freenode ##java's interesting content podcast
26 Oct 2017 -
Digital transformation tools move AI and deep learning forward
- Scrumtuous Inc. 22 Oct 2017 -
Digital transformation spells opportunity for developers
- Features Writer 06 Oct 2017 -
Agile developers' pain points in digital transformation projects
- Features Writer 04 Oct 2017 -
Java SE 9 approaches Atari-like performance at JavaOne 2017
- TechTarget 04 Oct 2017 -
Three reasons to start digital transformation projects
- Features Writer 03 Oct 2017 -
A bug fix always beats a round of risk assessments
- TechTarget 26 Sep 2017 -
How to create secure Java software: A talk with Black Duck's Tim Mackey
- TechTarget 10 Sep 2017 -
One does not simply 'stop calling' Java's deprecated methods
- TechTarget 04 Sep 2017 -
Implementing cloud-native security means going back to your secure coding basics
- TechTarget 01 Sep 2017 -
Implementing a custom user registry to consolidate LDAP servers and active directories?
- TechTarget 14 Aug 2017 -
Gender and ethnic parity is not equivalent to workplace diversity
- TechTarget 14 Aug 2017 -
Are you going to JavaOne 2017? Book your San Francisco hotel now.
- TechTarget 08 Aug 2017 -
How women in IT influence today's workforce and tomorrow's technology
- Scrumtuous Inc. 20 Jul 2017 -
The importance of developing Virtual Reality applications
14 Jul 2017 -
DevOps development is a software developer's burden
- TechTarget 11 Jul 2017 -
Advancing JVM performance with the LLVM compiler
- TechTarget 03 Jul 2017 -
Maarten Ectors explains what open source wireless means for developers
26 Jun 2017 -
A practical guide to understanding Java DevOps and continuous delivery with Eberhard Wolff
- TechTarget 15 Jun 2017 -
The relationship between Java DevOps, CI, CD and cloud-native computing
- TechTarget 24 May 2017 -
"AI First" the mantra for Google I/O 2017
19 May 2017 -
Java modularity's future takes a hit as Project Jigsaw (JPMS) is voted down
- TechTarget 10 May 2017 -
IBM's Watson is a joke, and Oracle won't be 'winning' for long
- TechTarget 09 May 2017 -
The 12-Factor App is cloud-native development for dummies
- TechTarget 08 May 2017 -
Can JVM performance in the cloud really compete with bare-metal metrics?
- TechTarget 05 May 2017 -
Java 9 will finally give the term 'deprecated' meaning
- TechTarget 19 Apr 2017 -
How Disney organized for an Agile DevOps transition
14 Apr 2017 -
Architecting cloud systems and the human side of DevOps deployment
13 Apr 2017 -
From the JSF 2.3 release to the Amazon AWS outage, we're taking shots at easy targets
- TechTarget 06 Apr 2017 -
Agile and DevOps aren't two magical unicorns of software development
- TechTarget 27 Mar 2017 -
IoT developers face critical questions when digitally transforming cities
13 Mar 2017 -
Machine learning and big data experts gather at the Dallas Data Science Association Conference
- Scrumtuous Inc. 10 Mar 2017 -
How to win at an IoT hackathon
27 Feb 2017 -
Addressing the challenges of modern day big data science
26 Feb 2017 -
Arguing the business case for IoT adoption
22 Feb 2017 -
Unclear strategies and a lack of expertise remain common IoT challenges
22 Feb 2017 -
IoT analytics reveal the true value of edge device deployment
20 Feb 2017 -
Good news, bad news for mobile app developers
- Features Writer 13 Feb 2017 -
IoT entrepreneurship on display at North Texas hackathon
26 Jan 2017 -
In the world of DevOps, maneuverability is more important than speed
20 Jan 2017 -
Looking ahead for 2017: Java, Containers, microservices, ALM and more
- TechTarget 09 Jan 2017 -
Java 9, Docker and Big Data: What are your New Year resolutions?
- TechTarget 04 Jan 2017 -
Four Agile and DevOps best practices to adopt 2017
27 Dec 2016 -
Yes, Agile DevOps initiatives sometimes fail
15 Dec 2016 -
Hate your job? Improving the ALM process might help
12 Dec 2016 -
DevOps tooling only a small part of the enterprise security puzzle
02 Dec 2016 -
Implementing a scalable, microservices architecture without all the hype
29 Nov 2016 -
Chipmaker Intel reasserts its longstanding commitment to the Java platform
28 Nov 2016 -
Three things you didn’t know about Golang, NoSql, and Cloud
17 Nov 2016 -
Developments in WebRTC: Real-Time Communication and the Transformation of Communication
15 Nov 2016 -
QCon and DOES16 in full swing in San Francisco this week
- TechTarget 07 Nov 2016 -
How to capture a heap dump
07 Nov 2016 -
Multi-modal NoSQL and cloud based microservices hot topics at JavaOne 2016
01 Nov 2016 -
Advanced container architectures: Kubernetes clouds and distributed Docker deployments
21 Oct 2016 -
How to engage future generations of programmers with Java
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 -
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 -
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 -
JavaOne 2016: What's driving digital transformation?
- Features Writer 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
This year's Google I/O conference kicked off on May 8 with a nearly two-hour keynote. The keynote was held at the outdoor Shoreline Amphitheater near Google's headquarters in Mountain View, ...
Cloud, mobile, and IoT have changed the face of the modern network so it’s no surprise network security fundamentals have become important for businesses of all sizes. It seems even the largest ...
A new borderless, blockchain collaboration talent pool could be the revolutionary force that resets the ground for both gaming industry players and developers.
The Agile methodology has proven itself effective in the world of software development, but can Agile for hardware development transform the manner in which products can be manufactured and ...
Was it just me, or did the Java 10 release just creep up on everyone? Given, a March release for Java 10 was planned a long time ago, but given Oracle's spotty history in terms of pushing out ...
While great efforts have been made to encourage both men and women to enter into STEM related fields, ongoing acts of discrimination against women makes gender inequality in technology a problem ...
The Eclipse Foundation has decided on Jakarta EE as the new name for Java EE as the organization moves to advance enterprise Java under the aegis of Eclipse.
Many organizations moved into the cloud with more enthusiasm than forethought. Which is why it is more important than ever for organizations to rethink how they manage and secure cloud data.
New architectures composed out of language agnostic software containers have made polyglot programming a new reality. But out of this newfound freedom chaos can ensue if clear software development ...
Data science as a discipline has a brief history but a bright future. The label for this particular field of specialization has caught on in the past ten years after being popularized by ...
Apple is undeserving of the backlash they have suffered. The battery update is a good feature that will extend a phone's life. It's not planned obselecense.
With so many competing container orchestration tools on the market, it's difficult to settle on which one to choose. But for many, Kubernetes is the right choice, and here's why.
Cybersecurity risk management should be a concern for organizations of all sizes, with fresh threats and data breaches making the news every few days.
The world of technology is exciting. And confusing. And dangerous. And full of potential. For women, privacy and security are concepts that go hand in hand. Today’s technology has created new ways ...
The article demonstrates that the requirements management, software integration and value stream networds are not only complementary, but essential in keeping all stakeholders involved in product deve
Why does Agile sometimes fail? Here are seven things to avoid in your Agile projects.
The Management Engine, embedded on certain Intel chips, is a hidden threat to the security of personal and corporate computers. People need to take this hidden threat seriously.
Walking the exhibition floor at the 2017 Gartner Strategies and Solutions Summit, is was hard to ignore the number of top DevOps vendors innovating and competing. DevOps for enterprise development ...
Serverless services may be the big trend in IT these days, but it's still a service-full world out there, and virtually every organization is relying on third party services to keep their ...
In our series on cloud native computing, TheServerSide spoke with a number of experts in the field, including a number of members of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The following is the ...
Every organization managing big data, employing IoT devices or pulling from a disparate set of information streams is looking at ways to put all of the data they have gleamed from their various ...
Find out why Michael Nygard, author of Release:It! thinks that when it comes to effective DevOps, a focus on faster release cycles is really solving the wrong problem.
CRM software is a competitive field, so you need to know the right questions to ask before making a purchase.
The ##java channel on Freenode IRC has been collecting interesting content for years, including content from here on TSS on occasion. Now, it's being collected into a weekly podcast.
While today’s Agile transformation tools have expanded the possibilities presented by analytics, social, IoT, and mobile, there’s also an underlying factor that can’t be ignored. Businesses can ...
Take a seat at the digital transformation project table, developers. It's your time to shine.
A consultant explains how developers must adjust to succeed in digital transformation projects.
As things get better, they often get slower, making better things worse. Far too often, that’s how things work in the tech sector, which is why I’m glad to see the architects of Java SE 9 bucking ...
What's driving businesses to start digital transformation projects? Tata Consultancy experts explain the human and technology forces in play.
When static code analysis tools identify a bug in the production code, there are two approaches organizations can take. The sensible one is to put a software developer or two on the problem and ...
In TheServerSide's ongoing coverage of developing secure Java software, I spoke recently with Tim Mackey, the IT evangelist for Black Duck Software. The conversation was interesting enough to pull ...
They're deprecating the finalize method, adding another method to the long list of Java deprecated methods that tend not to get pruned out of the JDK's code base.
There's really nothing new under the sun when it comes to addressing security vulnerabilities in code. While there has been a great shift in terms of how server side application are architected, ...
Should you implement a custom user registry to help mitigate access to your various LDAP servers in order to simplify security tasks such as authentication and group association? The answer to that ...
Former Google employee James Damore's recently leaked memo about his old employer's employment activities has brought the discussion about IT hiring practices to the fore. After reading a vast ...
It's likely not advice a veteran of JavaOne conferences needs to hear, but if you've got your ticket for JavaOne 2017, and you're attending this OracleWorld affiliated event for the first time, I'm ...
What would the tech world look like without leaders, visionaries, and entrepreneurs like Satya Nadella, John Ive, or Elon Musk? What about the contributions of the other seven men who complete the ...
Find out why the director of design at Singularity University Labs believes virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are important new interfaces that developers need to start building for ...
The committed use of a continuous delivery pipeline inevitably puts a far greater onus on the software developer than systems that used more traditional methods of moving code into product. A ...
In this interview with TheServerSide, Gil Tene explains how the LLVM compiler brings the JVM to a whole new level of performance.
Open source software has completely transformed the opportunities for software development. Now, Canonical is launching a new effort to bring these principles to programmable software defined ...
A few weeks ago TheServerSide published a story about the discussion TSS editor Cameron McKenzie (@cameronmcnz) had with Eberhard Wolff (@ewolff) about not only his latest book, but also the ...
We recently published an interview in which Ken Owens, Cisco Systems' chief technology officer of Cloud Platforms, provided a very concise and definition of cloud-native computing that pulled ...
Google's annual worldwide developer conference (Google I/O) kicked off at the Shoreline Auditorium in Mountain View, California on Wednesday morning. Seven thousand people are attending live, and othe
Can you believe all of this drama surrounding Project Jigsaw and the Java modularity debate? I was so thankful yesterday when President Donald Trump fired the director of the FBI, drowning out all ...
Hedge Fund manager Kyle Bass used to be my favorite industry analyst, but after watching a short, fire-breathing, three minute clip from CNBC's Closing Bell, I think Social Capital CEO, Chamath ...
Yegor Bugayenko wrote an amusing blog the other day entitled "SOLID is OOP for Dummies." Well, if SOLID is OOP for dummies, I wonder if he'd agree with my assertion that the 12-factor app mantra is ...
Surely in the world of high performance computing, there is still a place for running Java on a bare-metal machine, right? Yet according to Gil Tene and Azul's JVM performance experts, they're ...
They are finally pruning away deprecated methods out of Java 9. The deprecated value will now have deprecated meaning.
Conversations about architecting the enterprise for agility often start with a consideration of new technologies. However, this only works when enterprises processes and policies that support them ...
Find out now Netflix and other leading organizations attract and empower the top talent required for building out leading enterprise architectures..
Watching both the tech industry as well as mainstream media oversimplify the February 2017 Amazon S3 outage story annoyed me greatly. The annoyance transitioned into keystrokes, producing two ...
There’s a listicle over at the TechRepublic entitled Top 10 challenges to DevOps implementation (linked below). So what are the challenges? They list off the standard things such as culture and ...
Digitally transformed smart cities are the wave of the future, there’s no doubt about that. But the road to a more connected municipality is far from clear. Although there are some common ...
For the second year in a row, experts gathered in Dallas to explore the world of machine learning and data science.
Unlike most technology hackathons, this event kept a laser focus on the commercial side of technical innovation. What was the outcome of this IoT hackathon? It was a very tight race.
The Dallas Data Science Conference for 2017 focused on the three key areas of technology, innovation, and career for a large audience of students, industry professionals, and entrepreneurs. The ...
As an increasing number of businesses embrace IoT adoption to create more efficiency, reach new market segments, and innovate for the future, they are facing challenges along the way.
As an increasing number of businesses embrace the Internet of Things to create more efficiency, reach new market segments, and innovate for the future, they are facing challenges along the way.
Analytics delivers the real value of IoT and it’s not surprising that this is the area where businesses, vendors, and thought leaders are focusing their attention.
Veteran mobile app developers opines on monetization, citizen developers.
What better way to promote IoT entrepreneurship than by sponsoring a hackathon and awarding prizes that come with business development guidance to the winners?
Find out how Claude Remillard approached creating a new team at Microsoft for experimenting with new app releases.
Each year at TheServerSide we map out at the beginning of the year, looking ahead at what the hot topics of the year are going to be, a list of topics upon which we will focus on from month to ...
It's a New Year, and software developers make resolutions. Learning Docker, writing about Java 9 and playing with Big Data tools are my resolutions. What are yours?
From cloud development to Agile tooling, here are four DevOps best practices for you to embrace in 2017.
There is a great deal of confirmation bias in the world of DevOps, but the fact is, DevOps initiatives sometimes fail. Here we explore why.
If you ask Damon Edwards, Founder of SimplifyOps, and IT Skeptic Rob England, there’s a dirty little secret in the IT industry: a very high percentage of IT professionals hate their jobs. In fact, ...
A big part of operations is security, and while many tools exist to help with threat coverage, DevOps tooling is only a small part of the threat avoidance puzzle.
The days of the monolith are numbered. A system that may have worked fine internally for a few hundred users simply isn’t designed to work well for thousands of geographically dispersed users.
Reflecting back to JavaOne 2016, we take a look at Intel VP Michael Greene's talk about why the Java language and Intel is a great mix.
The tech evolution is occurring so rapidly that yesterday’s opinions are often invalid today. Here's some currently valid insights into Golang, NoSQL and Cloud
Web Real-Time Communication as an API definition and framework has made a huge impact in the communications arena by empowering users to instantly share multi-media across a wide array of devices.
Two very popular conferences are taking place this week in San Francisco, and we'll be bringing you the highlights from QCon and DevOps summit.
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
Be it AWS or Azure, cloud providers on both ends are making it easy to take Docker and Kubernetes architectures to the cloud.
As every JavaOne conference makes clear, Java is going to be around long after the current crop of attendees has been rendered obsolete.
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
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.
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 ...
Why is customers' rapid adoption of mobile devices and social media is spurring an increase in businesses' digital transformation.
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.