Software Development
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Using ELK (elasticsearch + logstash + kibana) to aggregate cassandra and spark logs
On one of my current projects we are using Cassandra and Spark Streaming to do some somewhat-close-to-real time analytics. The…
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Web Framework Benchmarks – Round 10
TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks is a collaborative, open web framework benchmarking project that I blogged about last year (see An open…
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Guide as in Mountaineering
Yes, I happen to deal with architecture, software design and technology. And yes, I’m entitled by the term “software architect”.…
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GitHub: be Social, Contribute, Learn
GitHub revolutionised the open source world by building – IMHO – the first true social coding site. It has never…
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What Exactly are SQL Views?
You probably know about “ordinary views” already, but I’m sure you’ll find one or two things in this article that…
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Getting started with AWS IAM
Recently AWS announced that using IAM Roles with their EMR service will be mandatory as of June 30 this year.…
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Highlighting Checkstyle Links using Maven and IntelliJ IDEA
Although IntelliJ IDEA has en excellent Maven integration, it doesn not recognize file references or file links in the output…
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If you do it do it right
This is a philosophical or ethical command. Very general. It is something like “fail fast”. The reason it came up…
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Monolithic core vs full microservice architecture
Martin Fowler recently released another article on microservices, specifically about the hype surrounding them. He states that though microservices are…
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