Top 10 Benefits Of Cloud Computing There was a famous prediction from the early years of computing that “there is a world market for maybe five computers”, allegedly attributed to the then CEO of IBM. Now, in 2018, it’s paradoxically become true again. We can risk this statement because, from a logical point of view, there…
Why Your Business Should Be Using Python Picking the right coding language is a lot like choosing a vehicle. Most options will, of course, get you to where you want to go, but the wrong choice might get you stuck in a rut. This choice is fundamental for any project or service. If you choose a language…
10 Reasons Why You Should Adopt Microservices You have probably heard the following sentences numerous times: Microservices are the future of software. Monoliths are nasty. You should migrate. Netflix is doing it, Amazon is doing it, Spotify is doing it. Lists of benefits littered with words like agility, performance, high availability, lower costs, agility, faster time-to-market… Oh…
Why You Should Build a Progressive Web App If you are a business owner rather than a software developer there is a good chance you don’t know what is so fantastic about PWA.
LINQPad – The .NET Programmer’s Playground I use LINQPad almost every day to execute any C# code I write. If you want to see how valuable tool it is, just read this article till the end.
JUnit 5 – a New Java Unit Testing Method Testing your application should be a development step just as important as programming. Of course, testing everything manually would be very time-consuming and tiring. When you think of “unit testing”, I bet you think of JUnit. The new, fifth version of this framework caught my attention some time ago and so I decided to share a few facts and code samples.
Hoverfly – your best friend in API simulation There is no doubt that developing and testing in microservice architecture is difficult, due to many dependencies. This article describes how Hoverfly, the smallest service virtualisation tool out there, addresses a few problems you may encounter at work.
The Messages View – Online Communicators Made Easy Our objective was to create a universal messages view for all types of communicator messaging apps. This idea was flagged by our team leader during one of our brainstorming sessions. What quickly caught our attention when we were attempting to create a user comments screen in our other project was the lack of a similar component in an open source space.
Spark Memory Management Part 2 – Push It to the Limits In Spark Memory Management Part 1 – Push it to the Limits, I mentioned that memory plays a crucial role in Big Data applications. This article analyses a few popular memory contentions and describes how Apache Spark handles them.
Spark Memory Management Part 1 – Push It to the Limits One of Spark's selling points is that it takes 10-100x less time to finish a similar job written as Hadoop Map-Reduce. The trick is to store data reliably in in-memory – this makes repeatedly accessing it (ie. for iterative algorithms) incomparably faster.
