Discover faster, more efficient performance monitoring with an enterprise APM product learning from your apps. Take the AppDynamics APM Guided Tour! As we review the history of enterprise applications we have seen several trends emerge over the years. In the mid-late 90s we built applications to be large and monolithic because they were destined to be published to very large ...

Build faster with Okta’s authentication and user management API. Register today for the free forever Developer Edition! If you’re building a Spring Boot application, you’ll eventually need to add user authentication. You can do this with OAuth 2.0 (henceforth: OAuth). OAuth is a standard that applications can use to provide client applications with “secure delegated access”. It works over HTTP ...

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 ...

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I like to work with git on the command line. But in some cases I prefer UI support. For example, solving merge conflicts is such a case. Git has a command mergetool, which can open a graphical tool to solve merge conflicts. But before you can use this command, you had to configure it. In this blog post I’d like ...

Object Oriented Programming (OOPS or OOPS for Object Oriented Programming System) is the most widely used programming paradigm today. While most of the popular programming languages are multi-paradigm, the support to object-oriented programming is fundamental for large projects. Of course OOP has its share of critics. Nowadays functional programming seems the new trendy approach. Still, most critics are due mostly ...

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. You have to change some elements, and retain others, as you redefine the context. Being outcome driven, is one element you must retain – or even elevate in importance, or you fundamentally break the system of delivery Getting Faster at Building ...

The first post was about scaling functions to working as collaborative agile teams. See Defining “Scaling” Agile, Part 1: Creating Cross-Functional Teams. Now, let’s talk about moving to multiple teams working together, a program. The good news is that you have a few cross-functional teams. They’ve been delivering as project teams. And, now you have a program, a collection of several ...

Chat bots are everywhere. Suddenly our messaging services are inundated with small automated systems inhabiting spaces in the domain of human-to-human communication. We can now have conversations with bots that help us buy products, book travel, make meetings, solve customer service issues, and much more. Here in Berlin, there are now two meetups dedicated to bots, and they piqued my ...

OpenShift is RedHat’s cloud development Platform as a Service (PaaS). It uses Kubernetes as container orchestration (so you can use OpenShift as Kubernetes implementation), but providing some features missed in Kubernates such as automation of the build process of the containers, health management, dynamic provision storage or multi-tenancy to cite a few. In this post I am going to explain how you can deploy ...

I keep encountering confusion about what scaling agile is. I’m writing what I think is a 4-part series to define it so we all talk about the same thing. When I ask people to define what they mean by scaling agile, they talk about these possibilities: They have agile developers. They want agile testers. This is creating cross-functional agile teams for ...