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Exploring Micro-Frameworks: Spring Boot
Get started with Spring Boot, a Java-orientated micro-frameworks. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install it, develop a Spring Boot app, develop a microservice step by step, also checking for security and how to package your Spring Boot app. It includes code snippets.
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OpenJDK and HashMap …. Safely Teaching an Old Dog New (Off-Heap!) Tricks
The OpenJDK Off-Heap JEP will be a radical departure from traditional Java priorities, seeking to standardize a facility for efficiently manipulating off-heap memory. This article surveys the impact this JEP will have to empower Java HashMap with new off-heap capabilities. Simply put, this JEP may be just the magic that can “teach” HashMap (that lovable old dog) some new tricks.
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Lambda Architecture: Design Simpler, Resilient, Maintainable and Scalable Big Data Solutions
Lambda Architecture proposes a simpler, elegant paradigm designed to store and process large amounts of data. In this article, author Daniel Jebaraj presents the motivation behind the Lambda Architecture, reviews its structure with the help of a sample Java application.
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Sustainable Architectural Design Decisions
Software architects must create designs that can endure throughout software evolution. In this article, based on a research study the authors discuss the criteria that can help architects assess architectural design decisions’ sustainability. They describe the challenges to achieving sustainable decisions, criteria for such decisions, solutions they tried, and lessons learned.
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Author Q&A on Programming for Kids
The book Programming for Kids contains many examples that kids in the age from 9-14 can use to learn the basics of programming, using the programming language Ruby. It also shows them how they can use the command line on a Mac computer. Parents can sit beside their kids and follow along. InfoQ did an interview with the author Peter Armstrong about how kids learn computer programming.
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Interview with Andy Piper on the Eclipse Paho project and the Internet of Things
MQTT provides the communications link for low-power systems. InfoQ caught up with Andy Piper, lead of the Eclipse Paho project, to find out more about the history of MQTT and why it is being used by internet scale companies such as Facebook.
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Custom Assertions in Java Tests
Using so-called "matcher libraries" to implement custom assertions to make tests more readable and maintainable.
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Interview and Book Review of The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering
Capers Jones wrote the book The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering in which he provides an overview of the evolution of information technology and software development. InfoQ interviewed Capers about advancements and events in software engineering and the effects that they have had on our society.
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Quality Code - Book Review and Interview
Quality Code book, authored by Stephen Vance, covers the different aspects of software development lifecycle with focus on delivering quality product. In the book, Stephen discusses the practices for supporting software craftsmanship testing. InfoQ spoke with the author about the book and the best practices for testing application code.
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Embedded Analytics and Statistics for Big Data
This article provides an overview of tools and libraries available for embedded data analytics and statistics, both stand-alone software packages and programming languages with statistical capabilities. The authors also discuss how to combine and integrate these embedded analytics technologies to handle big data.
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From Imperative Programming to Fork/Join to Parallel Streams in Java 8
The authors compare different methods to compute the variance of a large data set using an imperative style, The fork/join framework and the new Streams API in Java 8
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Reliable Auto-Scaling using Feedback Control
Philipp K. Janert explains how to reliably auto-scale systems using a reactive approach based on feedback control which provides a more accurate solution than deterministic or rule-based ones.