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 ...

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 ...

Spring Cloud solves common problems of distributed systems. However, for someone who works only with widely known monolith applications jumping into the long list of patterns designed for distributed services might be quite overwhelming at the very beginning. This article will take you through the basics of Spring Cloud by taking a practical approach. After finishing, not only you should ...

The first post in this series on parsing command line arguments in Java featured the Apache Commons CLI library. This is one of the oldest and likely one of the most commonly used of the Java-based command-line parsing libraries covered in this series. Apache Commons CLI does show its age, especially when contrasted with some of the more modern Java-based ...

Introduction Man, I’ve had this idea in my head for more than a month now (luckily I wrote it down, too), waiting until the day I wrote this post. I didn’t write it because I was busy with the move and new job, but now things are finally settling down! Here’s the thing: When you really dig into it, proper ...

The Rop library is described on its main page as “a lightweight command line option parser written in Java.” The “Introduction” to Rop also states, “Rop is designed to be minimal meanwhile convenient, and to cover most usual command line parsing use cases.” This post is the twenty-third in this series on parsing command line arguments in Java and focuses ...