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Building Reactive Systems Using Akka’s Actor Model and Domain-Driven Design
With the explosion of mobile and data-driven applications, users are demanding real-time access to everything everywhere. System resilience and responsiveness are essential business requirements. Businesses increasingly need to trade up to more flexible, "reactive" systems. To support reactive development, actor models with domain-driven design can fulfill modern resiliency requirements.
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The Java Evolution of Eclipse Collections
With each successive version of Java, frameworks must adapt and transform in order to stay current. This article aims to describe some of the new Java 8 features in Eclipse Collections, a high performance collections framework for Java, and looks ahead at some of the new things we’ve done to prepare for Java 9. This article will walk through these new features and changes.
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3 Easy Solutions to Optimize Images on the Fly
When pages are slow to load, images are frequently the culprit. The megabyte size of web pages is steadily growing, and images are by far the largest component. In this article, Gilad David Maayan shows how image optimization can be achieved easily and automatically with a few lines of code, using three different cloud services, dramatically improve page load times and bandwidth usage.
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Cost Reduction Strategies on Java Cloud Hosting Services
On the fly, automatic vertical scaling can lower the cost of exceeding VM limits, and gives flexibility in resource allocation. In this article we will cover techniques for determining whether automatic vertical scaling can help, and how to get it configured for your project.
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Perspective on Architectural Fitness of Microservices
In this article we peel the onion of potential architectural fitness of microservices in the context of Master Data Management, and the challenges a microservices-based architecture may face when solving problem domains that require compute-intensive tasks, such as the calculation of expected losses on a portfolio of unsecured consumer credit.
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Automated Journey Testing with Cascade
Starting with a brief history of software testing, we investigate Cascade, a new framework for testing “journeys”, eliminating overlapping coverage to produce fast unit tests.
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Can Cordova Fit Your Target Industry?
Cordova is an effective tool when in the right hands and when used for purposes it can cope with. This article discusses what app categories are the good, the bad, and the best for Cordova development.
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Four Tips for Working with Angular Components
If you're a beginner to Angular, you'll quickly find that components are some of the core building blocks of an Angular application. Regardless of what flavor of Angular you're working with, be it AngularJS or Angular 2+, learning to use components well is critical. In this article, Jonathan Saring offers four tips on working with Angular components.
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Painlessly Migrating to Java Jigsaw Modules - a Case Study
This article is a case study of changes required in an application to make use of the new Java Platform Module System. An understanding of the module system will become an important skill for Java developers, using Java 9 and beyond.
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Unleashing the Power of .NET Big Memory and Memory Mapped Files
In continuation of the Big Memory topic on the .NET platform, this article describes the benefits of utilization of large data sets in-process on the managed CLR server environments using Agincore’s Big Memory Pile.
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Mobile DNUN: Danger Notification and User Navigation
This article introduces the authors’ Danger Notification and User Navigation (DNUN) application, which works in conjunction with a geolocation system to save the location of users or objects for emergency rescue or later navigation. The DNUN mobile application can help rescue a user by sending an email with a danger notification to intended contacts.
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Turbocharge React with GraphQL
GraphQL and React are two Facebook technologies that have grown up together. In this article, Shane Stillwell shows how GraphQL, a strongly-typed JavaScript-based language, helps developers build relationships with their data and improves marshaling across service boundaries. GraphQL is extensible, works alongside REST, and can be implemented in any back-end software solution.