Discover faster, more efficient performance monitoring with an enterprise APM product learning from your apps. Take the AppDynamics APM Guided Tour! If you’re new to programming, Python is a great first language. It has a gentle learning curve, which enables you to experience the joys of programming early and often. Python’s clear and concise syntax allows you to focus on ...

Do you want to know what is the best investment you can make with your time and money? Knowledge As a software developer you should be constantly acquiring new skills. This is the best way to advance your career and enjoy the rewards (monetary, emotional etc.). Towards that direction you should be reading books, devouring technical articles and staying informed ...

Writing enterprise software is difficult and as engineers our job is to deliver value for the business within the boundaries of time, budget and resources. Complexity is what makes it difficult for us to deliver this value; we will always have to deal with the essential complexity of a system and for this we are required to communicate effectively with domain experts ...

JCommando is described on the JCommando site as “a Java argument parser for command-line parameters.” JCommando reads XML configuration to generate a Java class that handles parsing from a Java application. The only Java-based library previously covered in this series of posts on Java command-line parsing libraries that provided XML configuration is JSAP, but it’s a secondary form of configuration ...

Let’s dive right in! In the previous post (part I) we set up the context for this blog. Basically, as we introduce a strategy to bring microservices to our architecture, we cannot and should not disrupt the current request flows. Our “monolith” applications typically provide a lot of value for the business and we must drive down the risk of ...

Overview Why convert XML to JSON for raw use in MongoDB? Since MongoDB uses JSON documents in order to store records, just as tables and rows store records in a relational database, we naturally need to convert our XML to JSON. Some applications may need to store raw (unmodified) JSON because there is uncertainty in how the data will be ...

Java 9 has been released on September 21 officially, Eclipse is supporting Java 9 from  Eclipse Oxygen.1a (4.7.1a), Lets jump into module world..!!! Download Java 9 from here, and add it to Eclipse Installed JRE’s as below                   That’s it, we are good to write Java 9 module programs in Eclipse. Create ...

You obviously know what lazy loading is, right? And you no doubt know about caching. To my knowledge, there is no elegant way in Java to implement either of them. Here is what I found out for myself with the help of Cactoos primitives.             Let’s say we need an object that will encrypt some ...

As is the case in recent years, security breaches are becoming ever more accepted. Just take the recent Equifax breach as an epic example. No matter where we look, it seems like someone is always falling victim to some form of malicious attack or another. While the recent breach is fresh in our minds, I wanted to take a moment ...

Digitalization is heavily used in enterprises today to achieve business success. Business entities which do not embrace this change are losing their market share and going down day-by-day, as the human society is now experiencing digitalization at a global scale. This experience starts with all day-to-day activities to the major political, industrial, informational, educational and even cultural engagements. In essence, ...

We introduced OpenHub framework in the previous part of this series. This part shows one of the most powerful feature of the framework – asynchronous messaging model. Asynchronous communication between systems is used when source system can’t wait for the response of the target system. There are several reasons: source system must be responsive as much as possible and not be ...