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Preparing for Your First MongoDB Deployment: Capacity Planning and Monitoring

In this article, author Mat Keep discusses the deployment best practices of MongoDB databases with focus on capacity planning and monitoring aspects. He also explains the topics like hardware selection, key metrics for monitoring and when it’s time to add shards.

Mat Keep
on Oct 08, 2013
Keeping Your Secrets

Dennis Sosnoski explains how supposedly-secure connections can be downgraded to the point where they are easily broken and how even at full strength most forms of encryption are vulnerable to data capture and later decryption if your private keys are exposed. In this article you'll learn some ways of making it more difficult for anyone to see or alter your data exchanges.

Dennis Sosnoski
on Sep 30, 2013
Docker: Using Linux Containers to Support Portable Application Deployment

Docker is an open source tool to run applications inside of a Linux container, a kind of light-weight virtual machine. In addition to running, it also offers tools to distribute containerized applications through the Docker index -- or your own hosted Docker registry -- simplifying the process of deploying complex applications.

Zef Hemel
on Sep 26, 2013
How to Make Your In-memory NoSQL Datastores Enterprise-Ready

In this article, author Yiftach Schoolman outlines how to overcome the top seven challenges associated with managing the in-memory NoSQL datastores in the cloud. He discusses the challenges like availability, consistency during and after network splits, data durability, scalability, and ops overhead.

Yiftach Schoolman
on Sep 24, 2013
Virtual Panel: Adjusting to Development in the Cloud

Developers are steadily building experience with an array of diverse cloud environments. InfoQ spoke with three thoughts leaders about the state of cloud development, recommended tools, anti-patterns, and how to get started. Our panelists were Adron Hall, Magnus Mårtensson, and Andy Piper.

Richard Seroter
on Sep 20, 2013
Java

Tips for Tuning the Garbage First Garbage Collector

In July Monica Beckwith explored the theory of the new G1 GC Garbage First Garbage Collector. In this second installment, Monica delves into more practical aspects and provides guidance for tuning.

Monica Beckwith
on Sep 17, 2013
Advanced UNIX Programming: An Interview with Stephen Rago

Having a solid grasp of the fundamentals of systems development provides programmers with crucial concepts that that serve them regardless of their day-to-day development tasks. One of the highly regarded books in this field is Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. Now in its 3rd edition, coauthor Stephen Rago speaks with InfoQ about the book.

Jeff Martin
on Sep 12, 2013
How Fog Creek Software Made Kiln's Search 1000x Faster with Elasticsearch

ElasticSearch is an open source, distributed, real-time search and analytics engine. This is the story of how Elasticsearch helped Fog Creek Software make Kiln’s Search 1000x faster.

Kevin Gessner
on Sep 11, 2013
Interview with Mary Delamater, Author of Murach's ASP.NET 4.5 Web Programming with C# 2012

Murach Publishing continues to provide quality content for programmers by updating their titles regularly. Murach ASP.NET 4.5 Web Programming with C# 2012 by Mary Delamater and Anne Boehm attempts to provide a comprehensive coverage of ASP.NET 4.5 using C# language with plenty of screenshots and source codes to help developers to code in real world situations.

Anand Narayanaswamy
on Sep 10, 2013
Book Review: Vagrant up and running

Mitchell Hashimoto released his book "Vagrant up and running" which covers everything from basic Vagrant usage to extending its functionality. In seven chapters he explains every aspect of Vagrant - from staring a default VM to extending it via plug-ins.

Matthias Marschall
on Sep 06, 2013
Preparing for Continuous Delivery in the Enterprise

In this article you will find guidance on how to get started realizing a Continuous Delivery vision, especially in the context of existing development and release environments in large enterprises.

Andrew Phillips
on Aug 28, 2013
Getting Started with HotSpot and OpenJDK

In this article, we look at the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine, and its implementation in the OpenJDK, both from a VM perspective and also in terms of its interaction with the Java class libraries.

Ben Evans
on Aug 27, 2013

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