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The feedback cycle and runtime governance
Introduction Runtime governance can be defined as the process which allows you to control and manage parameters in your runtime execution environment. A runtime execution environment ...
How to be Big Data-native?
Big data has spawned a set of tools that deliver results beyond the buzz. It has started delivering real insights for companies, which result in more effective decisions. When middleware ...
Apache Hive on Windows in 6 easy steps
Note: You need to have cygwin installed to run this tutorial, as Hadoop (needed by Hive) needs cygwin to run on windows. At a minimum, Basic, Net (OpenSSH,tcp_wrapper packages) and ...
BAM, SOA & Big Data
Leveraging Big Data has become a commodity for most IT departments. It’s like the mobile phone. You can’t remember the times when you couldn’t just call someone from your mobile, ...
5 things Usability is NOT
Usability, IMHO, is the single most important factor in making or breaking a product. No matter how good efficient your code is, if it’s not usable, your software will just fail. In ...
Servlet Basic Auth in an OSGi environment
You will first need to get a reference to the OSGI HTTP Service. You can do this through a declarative service. This post will concentrate on steps after getting a reference to the ...
A revolution with Business Activity Monitor (BAM) 2.0
Producing middle ware that is both lean and enterprise worthy is a difficult job. It’s either non-existent or requires innovative thinking (a lot of it) and a lot of going back and ...
HOWTO: Increase performance in your application
If there’s one thing that developers hate it’s seeing your piece of code becoming a performance hog. That piece of code that does it’s job beautifully, comes crashing down when ...
The problems in Hadoop – When does it fail to deliver?
Hadoop is a great piece of software. It is not original but that certainly does not take away its glory. It builds on parallel processing, a concept that’s been around for decades. ...
