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Unified Data Modeling for Relational and NoSQL Databases
Current enterprise data architectures include NoSQL databases co-existing with relational databases. However, NoSQL data management currently lacks mature methods and tools to manage NoSQL data. In this article, author discusses a solution for managing both NoSQL and relational databases using Unified Data Modeling techniques.
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Graph API in a Large Scale Environment
MyHeritage is a rapidly-growing destination used around the world to discover, preserve and share family histories. There is increasing demand for our services, accessed both internally and externally by our partners via the FamilyGraph API. Millions of API calls are made every day providing a huge challenge in terms of performance, scalability and security.
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Q&A With Mike Talks on Why Agile Testing Needs Deprogramming
Mike Talks, Test Manager at Datacom, gave a talk at the Agile New Zealand 2015 conference on Deprogramming the Cargo Cult of Testing. Afterwards he explained why agile testing needs deprogramming, and how this can be done.
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Metadata-Driven Design: Creating an User-Friendly Enterprise DSL
What if we could create a language that could be easily understood by the layman but yet enforce those rules that apply to our business domain? What if a snippet of this language could then be interpreted and performed at runtime, without the need for recompilation or redeployment of the system? Aaron Kendall shows how to build such a domain-specific language for a saavy but non-technical crowd.
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Why I No Longer Use MVC Frameworks
User interfaces have used the MVC pattern for decades, yet it hasn't kept pace with the demands of modern applications. To meet new demands and to speed up development, Jean-Jacques Dubray introduces a new pattern: State-Action-Model (SAM). SAM is a reactive, functional pattern that strives to simplify the interaction between the data model and the view.
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A Reference Architecture for the Internet of Things
This is the first article of a two article series in which we try to work from the abstract level of IoT reference architectures towards the concrete architecture and implementation for selected use cases. This first article will cover the definition of a more concrete and comprehensible architecture whereas the second part will then apply this architecture to actual use cases.
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Microservices in the Real World
An interview with Alexander Heusingfeld and Tammo van Lessen about getting operations involved in architecture and dealing with "us vs. them" behavior when applying DevOps, how to use the Self-Contained Systems approach to modernize software systems, similarities and differences between Self-Contained Systems and microservices, improving deployment pipelines and using measurements in deployment.
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From Monolith to Multilith at ticketea
ticketea is a large online ticket selling platform in Spain. This article describes their growing pains and how DevOps and an API-based distributed architecture allowed them to cope with growth, both from a technical (from monolith to multilith) and people (awareness and knowledge sharing) perspective.
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Jawbone's Head of Data Science and Analytics on the Future of Wearables and Analytics Insights
Brian Wilt, Head of Data Science and Analytics at Jawbone, recently gave a presentation at QCon SF about Machine Learning applications at Jawbone. Here we ask more about current and future directions of research and development around sleep research, getting actionable insights, getting wearables to play a significant role in healthcare, and cool projects currently in their early stages at Jawbone
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Thinking Outside-In: How APIs Fulfill the Original Promise of Service-Oriented Architecture
The article explores how and why APIs are a lightweight and agile way of building reusable business systems. While some SOA adopters delivered these goals many efforts faced complexity and failed. The key difference with APIs is in the shift from hierarchical services to distributed resources, simplicity, statelessness and a focus on making it practical for the business to understand and implement
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Getting Ready for IoT’s Big Data Challenges with Couchbase Mobile
Our physical world is about to become digitally enabled and according to various predictions for example by Gartner or Cisco, there will be many billions of IoT devices going online and constantly gathering data in the coming years. We got in touch with Wayne Carter and Ali LeClerc of Couchbase to discuss how Couchbase Mobile is also ready for the upcoming era of Internet of Things.
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Programming with Modularity and Project Jigsaw. A Tutorial Using the Latest Early Access Build
Project Jigsaw is the hallmark feature of Java 9, the next major version release of Java, and is destined to bring modular programming into the Java mainstream. After years of negotiating and myriad JSRs and JEPs, Jigsaw is starting to take its final form. This tutorial considers all aspects of programming and migration to Project Jigsaw.