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Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Computing – Cloud computing pros and cons
Introduction Cloud computing refers to the use of computing resources, those being hardware and/or software) that reside on a remote machine and are delivered to the end user as a service ...

The Reality of Developer’s Life
In this post I am going to try to illustrate in a funny way the reality of developer’s life. This post is a translation of another post written in Spanish. When ...

Look At It Carefully And You Will Find Something To Improve
I propose you an exercise: when you come back to work tomorrow morning, navigate through the source code of your project and try to find opportunities of refactoring. Do it even if ...

Spring Data Solr Tutorial: Introduction to Solr
Most of the applications must have a some kind of a search function. The problem is that search functions are often huge resource hogs and they can kill the performance of our application ...

Kanban is the New Scrum
Maybe it’s all the time I spend with startups, but while I strongly value Scrum’s ideas behind self-organizing teams & continual feedback – I can’t help but feel Kanban ...

Hadoop setup on single node and multi node
We will describe Hadoop setup on single node and multi node. The Hadoop environment setup and configuration will be described in details. First you need to download the following ...

Minor Gotchas from migration to Java 7
After several years of pushing, we are finally starting to pull our application out of the dark ages in terms of software levels and one of those steps is upgrading our Java version ...

Multilayered Architecture (2) – The Domain Layer
Introduction The domain layer is a collection of entity objects and related business logic that is designed to represent the enterprise business model. The major scope of this layer ...

Heroku and Java – From Newbie to Beginner, Part 1
Recently I’ve heard that Heroku allows deployment of Java applications in it’s Cedar stack. Having no real software idea I decided I’ll give it a try and just configure SOMETHING ...

Multilayered architecture (1) – Introduction
Introduction If you ever worked in an IT project, you would probably know how necessary it is to factorize the source code to avoid that the entropy will take possession of your project ...

Are We Agile Yet?
I read somewhere that a large number of software teams think they’re Agile because they do Daily Scrums. Now I don’t like to get religious, and I certainly don’t believe you have ...

Asynchronous CDI Events
Few days ago, during our regular code review, one of my colleagues raised a question what would happen — and if it’s even possible — when a CDI Observer (so a method with parameter ...





