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How to Use Spring Hadoop—a Spring Batch Example

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:30:49 -0400

Engineers from Spring Source and Pivotal outline some examples of how to use Spring Hadoop with other Spring Projects and drill into an example of configuring Spring Batch with Spring Hadoop.

How 12 years of Red Hat history led to this 'big bet' on cloud computing

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:30:34 -0400

"Over the last twelve months we have transformed the company" said Cormier, promising that the various products and tools to be released and promoted this June would be ones that "define the next generation of computing." But before explaining the details of Red Hat's transformation over the past twelve months, Cormier felt the need to explain how his company had evolved over the past twelve years to become an organization that is uniquely positioned to take the lead in the cloud computing space.

The right time to use the builder pattern in Java

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:28:55 -0400

Builder design pattern is a creational pattern like Factory pattern but has a very specific use case. You should be using Builder pattern, when you are creating object with too many optional and some mandatory properties in Java.

Newly released NetBeans IDE 7.3.1 Introduces Java EE 7 Support

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:17:28 -0400

Get started today learning to use and being productive with the Java EE 7 Platform via the newly released NetBeans IDE 7.3.1.

10 Productivity tips for software developers

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:10:25 -0400

Ten hot tips to boost your day to day productivity!

Performing Under Pressure, pt. 1: Load-Testing With Multi-Mechanize

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:45:26 -0400

In this two-part series, I’ll walk through generating load using the Python multi-mechanize load-testing framework, then collect and analyze data about app performance.

Searchable documents? Yes You Can. Another reason to choose AsciiDoc

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:18:31 -0400

Elasticsearch is a flexible and powerful open source, distributed real-time search and analytics engine. Asciidoctor is a pure Ruby processor for converting AsciiDoc source files and strings into HTML 5, DocBook 4.5 and other formats. In this post we are going to see how we can use Elasticsearch over AsciiDoc documents to make them searchable by their header information or by their content.

Implementing Timeouts with FutureTask

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 03:46:27 -0400

Sometimes when you are writing some code that needs communication with external systems, not necessarily by using a socket, for example it can be using a serial port, we may need a way to implement a timeout algorithm, so if after some specified time, the request does not return a result, a timeout error should be thrown so user can act in consequence, and not wait indefinitely for a result that maybe will never come. In this post we are going to use FutureTasks to implement timeouts.

Adaptively Controlling Apache Cassandra Client Request Processing

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 14:56:43 -0400

We apply adaptive control to Apache Cassandra for more effective management of request workloads resulting in improved response time and throughput.

Oracle discontinues free Java time zone updates

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:47:32 -0400

Oracle requires support license to patch Java time zones

Performance Measurement Truths – Rarely Pure and Never Simple

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:46:39 -0400

Looks at how a performance model changes depending on the load ramp-up (fast or slow) and the use of adaptive measurement thresholds.

How to accurately identify impact of system issues on end-user response time

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:46:26 -0400

During a recent production load test we identified CPU exhaustion being our main hotspot preventing us from scaling to the number of visitors we wanted to support. In this blog we want to show you how we brought Ops and Dev on a single table to analyze the data and define action items in order to improve performance and scalability in both the Application as well as in the Infrastructure

Spring Batch 2.2.0 is now available

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:19:39 -0400

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 2.2.0.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github and the SpringSource download repository.
Spring Batch Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

Architecting an Enterprise Mobile App

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:48:52 -0400

This guide is designed to help Developers architect Enterprise Mobile Apps. It covers the following Mobile Development aspects: Enterprise Integration, Offline Support, Data Push, Authentication, and Platform Support.

Newest release of WSO2 API Manager adds multi-tenancy

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:18:10 -0400

Open source WSO2 API Manager fosters new business models for monetizing APIs, provides unmatched flexibility for deploying on servers and in the cloud