Best Of The Week

Hello guys, Time for the “Best Of The Week” links for the week that just passed. Here are some links that drew JavaCodeGeeks attention: * TripAdvisor Architecture – 40M Visitors, 200M Dynamic Page Views, 30TB Data: An overview of the TripAdvisor architecture. Open Source oriented with Linux, Apache, Tomcat, Java, Postgres, Lucene, Velocity, Memcached, JGroups and others. * Android App ...

Hello guys, Time for the “Best Of The Week” links for the week that just passed. Here are some links that drew JavaCodeGeeks attention: * How to use Scala and Lucene to create a basic search application: A quick quide how to use Scala and Lucene to create a basic search application. The example is based off a Twitter analysis ...

Hello guys, Time for the “Best Of The Week” links for the week that just passed. Here are some links that drew JavaCodeGeeks attention: * Stuff to Watch from Google IO 2011: A nice collection of presentation performed at the Google IO 2011. The suggested videos are scalability and architecture related, featuring App Engine, GWT and Google Docs API among ...

Hello guys, Time for the “Best Of The Week” links for the week that just passed. Here are some links that drew JavaCodeGeeks attention: * Java Exploits Biggest Threat to PCs?: An article discussing the fact that some Java vulnerabilities are considered top threats to PCs. Security and exploits are usually not taken under consideration in a Java developer’s mind, ...

Hello guys, Time for the “Best Of The Week” links for the week that just passed. Here are some links that drew JavaCodeGeeks attention: * Evernote Architecture – 9 Million Users and 150 Million Requests a Day: An article providing an overview of Evernote’s architecture. Some of the key points include controlling costs, application redundancy, data reliability, fast request routing ...

Hello guys, Time for the “Best Of The Week” links for the week that just passed. Here are some links that drew JavaCodeGeeks attention: * Implementing a MySQL redundant site: A short article providing a description of data synchronization via database replication along with the advantages that such a solution provides. * How do you measure the RESTful-ness of an ...

Hello guys, Time for the “Best Of The Week” links for the week that just passed. Here are some links that drew JavaCodeGeeks attention: * Using JMeter to measure binary protocols: A very useful article describing how to setup and use JMeter in order to measure the performance of custom binary protocols. This was done without writing a custom plugin ...

Hello guys, Time for the “Best Of The Week” links for the week that just passed. Here are some links that drew JavaCodeGeeks attention: * The Highly Useful Java TimeUnit Enum: An article that explains how to use the TimeUnit enums in order to avoid “magic numbers” and produce cleaner code when manipulating date and time. * Unix Orchestration Roundup: ...

Hello guys, Time for the “Best Of The Week” links for the week that just passed. Here are some links that drew JavaCodeGeeks attention: * All I Want for Java 8 is… : A Java 8 feature wishlist including Full Runtime Generics Support, JMX 2.0 Features, Improved Date/Time Support and others. * Application Performance Monitoring in production – Step by ...