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Martin Van Ryswyk on DataStax Enterprise Graph Database
DataStax recently announced a new product called DataStax Graph to store graph data models. It's based on open source Titan graph database and uses Apache Tinkerpop framework's Gremlin query language. InfoQ spoke with Martin Van Ryswyk about the new product.
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Big Data Processing with Apache Spark - Part 4: Spark Machine Learning
In this fourth installment of Apache Spark article series, author Srini Penchikala discusses machine learning concepts and Spark MLlib library for running predictive analytics using a sample application.
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OpenStack in Action Review and Q&A with the Author
OpenStack in Action is a new release from Manning that aims to introduce readers to the OpenStack platform for cloud computing (IaaS). InfoQ has interviewed V. K. Cody Bumgardner, author of the book.
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Four Benefits of Switching Your Contact Center Agent Software to WebRTC
Contact centers around the globe are running two sets of expensive software: CRM and Real-Time Communications. Tsahi Levent-Levi shows how, by integrating WebRTC, companies can become more flexible and save money. Using only a browser, with no additional software or plug-ins to install, call centers can distribute their work force around the globe.
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Microservice Threading Models and their Tradeoffs
A microservice's efficiency and resource consumption patterns are dramatically affected by its threading model. Choosing the correct model for your solution is a basic requirement for success. Glenn Engstrand investigates multiple options for a service's execution life-cycle, gives examples of the benefits and drawbacks for each choice, and provides recommendations for each model's implementation.
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Q&A on Express.js with Evan Hahn
When people talk about Node.js powering the back-end web, they're often actually talking about Express. Just as jQuery and other frameworks smooth over the XmlHttpRequest work in the browser, Express.js works to make the experience on the server just as easy. In this Q&A, author Evan Hahn provides more context on Express and where it's going.
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Locating Common Micro Service Performance Anti-Patterns
In this second installment on diagnosing performance issues, performance engineer Andreas Grabner focuses on spotting patterns that cause performance and scalability issues in distributed Micro Service Oriented Architectures.
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Angular 2 and TypeScript - A High Level Overview
AngularJS has become the world's most popular JavaScript framework for creating web applications. And now Angular 2 and TypeScript have brought true object oriented web development to the mainstream, using a syntax that is strikingly close to Java 8. In this article we provide a high-level overview of the Angular 2 framework.
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Top 10 Performance Mistakes
Martin Thompson, co-founder of LMAX, keynoted at QCon São Paulo 2016, outlining the top 10 performance related mistakes that he has encountered in production.
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Lambda Functions versus Infrastructure - Are we Trading Apples for Oranges?
Amazon's AWS Lambda service lets us run code without provisioning servers. Serverless offerings have recently been receiving interest due to their simplicity, capabilities and potential for cost reductions. This article compares the tradeoffs of serverless models with VM/Container based models.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2016
This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon London 2016 as blogged and tweeted by QCon's 1,400 attendees. Over the course of the next 4 months, InfoQ will be publishing most of the conference sessions online, including 21 video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team.
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C#/Web API Code Generation Patterns for the RAML User
In this article, Jonathan Allen outlines the design patterns that users of REST specification languages such as RAML, Swagger, and API Blueprint should adhere to when generating code for C# and ASP.NET Web API. This includes topics such as model validation, async support, and request cancellation.