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• Saving money in the cloud: Tips for getting the greatest ROI on AWS

  Many organizations move to the cloud to save money, but often there is sticker shock when the first bill comes in. Here are some tips on how to get the greatest return on investment (ROI) on your Amazon Web Services (AWS) migration.  Continue Reading

• Seven ways to optimize mobile apps for improved performance

  While many organizations have been developing mobile apps for years, making sure those apps are optimized in such a way that will improve performance is still a challenge. Here we look at seven simple ways organizations can optimize their mobile ...  Continue Reading

• Bitnami: How a pet project evolved into cloud hosting and server management

  It's amazing how what was once a pet project that provided simple installers to fellow developers turned into a profitable business on the leading edge of cloud hosting and managed virtual servers. Here we take a look at the Bitnami story.  Continue Reading

• Addressing security concerns and evolving beyond Spring with Java EE 8

  The Spring framework created a situation where the Java EE platform had plenty of catching up to do, but if Java EE 8 can plug the security holes and evolve beyond Spring, Java EE may once again become the first choice for enterprise application ...  Continue Reading

• From ElasticSearch to Splunk: Understanding your log aggregation options

  The key to successfully being able to anticipate and diagnose software problems is being able to make sense of your application logs. In part two of this two part series, we take a look at some of the most popular log aggregation tools on the market...  Continue Reading

• Choosing the right log aggregator to mine your performance data

  To maintain and improve an existing system, being able to read and understand log files is an absolute requirement. Here we look at how various logging technologies compare with each other.  Continue Reading

• Goetz hangs his hat on lambda parallelism and performance

  When it comes to improving Java, few changes have been as eagerly anticipated as lambdas. From parallelism to performance, the lambda experiment is working, and smart software developers are adopting it.  Continue Reading

• Will Java 8 Lambda expressions really change JavaEE development?

  One of the most anxiously anticipated Java 8 features was the addition of Lambda expressions. But after almost a year since their release, are they actually being adopted, and will they really have any impact on how JavaEE applications are developed?  Continue Reading

• Is PaaS as dangerous as it seems? Cloudbees bust some cloud computing myths

  Is cloud computing as dangerous as it seems? From open source do-it-yourself types to organizations who fear the lack of standards, there are plenty of myths to dispel. Here Cloudbee's Sacha Labourey provides the truth behind the cloud computing FUD.  Continue Reading

• Top 5 DevOps best practices for achieving security, scalability and performance

  How do you get the most out of your applications? One way is to adopt a DevOps approach to deployment and apply these five best practices for achieving security, scalability and performance.  Continue Reading

• From writing code to EMT: A CTO's journey

  Making the move from writing code to becoming an EMT was the best training for success as a CTO.  Continue Reading

• How risk averse enterprises are plugging security holes in the Java JVM

  Java has had its fair share of bad press in the world of application security, which is why risk averse organizations are taking new steps to ensure their applications are penetration proof.  Continue Reading

• How Apple's restrictive app store policies are driving Android platform adoption

  Wouldn't it stink to create a great mobile application, only to have Apple reject it from being published in their app store? Sadly, that's exactly what's happening, and it's helping to drive software developers to the Android platform.  Continue Reading

• Comparing of the cloud storage Titans: Amazon S3 versus Microsoft Azure

  There are many vendors out there fighting for your cloud based storage space, with the two biggest being Microsoft Azure and Amazon's S3 offering. Here we compare the two to help you figure out which cloud storage solution is right for you.  Continue Reading

• How a growing demand for data tier scalability spawned the NoSQL movement

  There was a time when even the suggestion of storing an organization's data in anything but a relational database would seem foolish. But NoSQL has flipped that equation on its head, as organizations who are looking for speed and scalability are ...  Continue Reading