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• Effective API development: How to create a beautiful Java API

  There's an art to creating a beautiful Java API. Here we examine the art of effective API development with Layer 7's Mike Amundsen.  Continue Reading

• How big data and distributed systems solve traditional scalability problems

  The highly centralized enterprise data center is becoming a thing of the past, as organizations must embrace a more distributed model to deal with everything from content management to big data. Here we examine how technologies like Hadoop and NoSQL...  Continue Reading

• How to architect a modern distributed architecture

  Building a distributed architecture involves many different components and many different strategies, from client server computing, to managing big data and content. Here we look at some basic strategies for tackling modern distributed architectures.  Continue Reading

• Contrasting distributed computing with concurrent programming:

  In many ways, concurrent programming and distributed programming address the same set of programming issues, but there are significant differences between the two, and architects and developers need to understand the difference.  Continue Reading

• How NoSQL, MySQL and MongoDB worked together to solve a big-data problem

  Choosing between schemaless NoSQL databases and strong-schema relational designs isn't an either-or decision, as this case study points out. When dealing with their big data problem, Craigslist decided that their MySQL servers could use a little ...  Continue Reading

• The Craigslist Dilemma: A case study for big data and NoSQL solutions

  It's hard to imagine just how many postings Craigslist has handled over the years, and if you were in charge of archiving those posts and storing them for compliance, you'd need a 'big data' solution. So how does Craigslist manage all of their data,...  Continue Reading

• Cloud Deployment Testing: Leveraging PaaS, Saas and IaaS

  Many challenges arise when it comes time to deploy your applications, and if deployment goes wrong, the problems are incredibly visible to both the users and upper management. But with cloud computing, there is a better way to smooth out the ...  Continue Reading

• Collaboration and transparency: The keys to successful application development

  Ubuntu moves forward by harnessing the power of the open source community. It's a model that is extremely dissimilar to what we see in enterprise development, but there are allegories between the two. Here, we take a look at what enterprise ...  Continue Reading

• Application lifecycle management: Best practices for improving the deployment process

  Nothing is more visible to both clients and senior management than an applications that doesn't work. And the risk for failure is never higher than it is the moment after deployment. So how do you ensure deployment always goes smoothly. There is no ...  Continue Reading

• Web page performance: Removing the white flicker delay

  Looking for ways to improve the performance of web page rendering and removal of the white flicker that often occurs when a web page loads? There are many tweaks and tips commonly talked about regarding web page development –  from design  to the ...  Continue Reading

• Accelerating mobile development with PaaS, SaaS and IaaS

  Mobile development teams are finding success by leveraging various cloud services in order to make application development easier.  Continue Reading

• Modern mobile development techniques: The Y-shaped methodology

  To support all of the platforms in the mobile space, Agile teams are realizing that a Y-shaped methodology is best for mobile development.  Continue Reading

• Top five ways cloud computing impacts mobile application development teams

  To accelerate time to market, mobile application development teams are relying heavily on these five cloud computing services.  Continue Reading

• Embedded architecture accelerates mobile application development

  Mobile application development projects succeed at getting products to market quickly. The reason behind the speed? It's all about the architecture.  Continue Reading

• How cloud computing is impacting enterprise Java developers

  How do cloud computing technologies impact the day-to-day development patterns of typical Java developers?  Continue Reading

• What type of software development professional do you need?

  Be it an agile team or a company using a waterfall type of development process, your application development team needs an assortment of different skills and skillsets. Here we look at the various types professionals that make up the typical ...  Continue Reading

• Discovering the right metrics for scalability testing

  Scalability testing is perhaps the most important test you need to run on your application before going forward with deployment. But how do you know when you've proven that your application can scale. Here we take a look at some of the most ...  Continue Reading

• Application lifecycle management (ALM) challenges for multiple apps

  Managing the lifecycle of one application is a challenge, but how do you go about the application lifecycle management process when you have multiple big applications being developed simultaneously. The best project managers need to know how to ...  Continue Reading

• What's the big IDE? Comparing Eclipse and NetBeans

  The Java community has long debated the best IDE. Is it Eclipse or NetBeans? These are the two most popular among TherServerSide.com readers.  Continue Reading

• Scaling Web applications with Scala, Clojure and Groovy

  Scaling Web applications written in Java can be difficult due to thread concurrency and locking issues. However, immutable peripheral languages like Scala, Groovy, and Clojure can make scaling up more feasible.  Continue Reading

• Why Java applications fail to scale linearly: A simple explanation

  The process of scaling up Java applications often runs into the problem of diminishing returns, where adding another processor no longer adds significant benefit. Why won't Java programs scale? Here's your answer.  Continue Reading

• Java EE 7 migration: Risk mitigation strategies

  Some enterprise Java shops are weighing the risks of a migration to Java EE 7 against the potential benefits, which are incremental and cloud focused.  Continue Reading

• Project documentation and Agile development

  Agile development has been very effective at reducing the need for extensive, ponderous documentation. However, this methodology has not done away with the need for documentation entirely. It has simply moved documentation from a foundational role ...  Continue Reading

• Ten Reasons to Love Liferay

  Summing it up, if you are launching an enterprise portal project, you certainly should consider using a portal product as the foundation  Continue Reading

• Has Computer Programming Really Changed Much Since Lovelace's Time?

  Everyone always talks about these new computer programming languages, and how great one is over the other. But really, has computer programming really changed that much over time?  Continue Reading

• Embedded software patterns for more than just embedded systems

  Embedded software patterns have a lot to offer any software engineer who routinely faces serious resource constraints.  Continue Reading

• Adding MVEL to the Java Developers Toolkit

  By now you should be thoroughly convinced that as a Java developer you cannot afford to leave MVEL out of your toolbox, and that it fills a unique gap between complete programming environments like Groovy and Scala and expression languages like OGNL...  Continue Reading

• Modularizing the Hibernate SessionFactory with the Spring framework

  This paper outlines a method for modular application development using Spring and Hibernate. The approach described has similarities to the OSGi or Spring DM approach.  Continue Reading

• Cloud Technologies are Changing the IT Landscape

  By far, the largest impact of a cloud computing model is to IT infrastructure. The migration to such a model must be carefully considered because not only is hardware and software affected but also the way in which internal IT processes and vendor ...  Continue Reading

• Embedded operating systems: Linux versus Windows

  Choosing the right embedded operating system is not an easy decision. Closely examine the pros and cons of each OS to determine which one will bring the most value to your specific project.  Continue Reading

• Managed File Transfer in Enterprise Java Applications

  In an SOA world, bulk data transfer occurs largely by way of file transfer. "Multiple studies show that around 80% of business-to-business traffic consists of files," says Jonathan Lampe of File Transfer Consulting, a vendor-neutral consultancy ...  Continue Reading

• Say No To The Cloud? There Are Reasons Why

  The extensively use of IT systems by business users to increase productivity and bring down cots of operations has lead to building and maintaining substantial IT infrastructure. Managing the complex IT systems require high capital cost, expensive ...  Continue Reading

• OSGi: A Proven Approach for Developing Modular Applications

  OSGi provides a framework for developing modular enterprise applications by installing a set of (preferably reusable) component modules.  Continue Reading

• What to look for in an application server

  What are the key parts of an application server that your application needs? Here's a quick overview.  Continue Reading

• What is an Application Server?

  Historically, the Java professional has thought of the application server as a system that can support the deployment and runtime of Servlet and EJB applications. But that definition is changing.  Continue Reading

• Understanding How the Application Server's Web Container Works

  A quick article explaining how requests are marshalled back and forth between a client and an application serer's web container.  Continue Reading

• Working with the EJB Container

  This article talks about the intricacies of invoking a remote EJB running in an application server's EJB container.  Continue Reading

• Top 5 reasons that JSP scriptlets suck

  Learn the top 5 reasons why scriplets and Java code aren't optimal in JSP pages.  Continue Reading

• Developing for the cloud: How developing in the cloud is different

  The benefits of cloud computing have been widely touted – business agility, scalability, efficiencies and cost savings among the top – and companies are migrating and building mission-critical Java applications specifically for cloud environments at...  Continue Reading

• Scala and the cloud

  As the cloud becomes more popular, so does the functional programming language Scala. Don't worry though, it's Java compatible and it runs on a JVM. So why are people using it? Perhaps because it's so functional.  Continue Reading

• Sharding in the Cloud

  I/O reads to non-virtualized datastores can be one of the biggest bottlenecks in applications that have been deployed to the cloud. One of the easiest ways to avoid this problem is to simply shard your database.  Continue Reading

• Caching Scenarios

  Caching is a quick and easy way to save roundtrips between your application and where you store your data. However, it’s not as easy as just snapping a map into your application – to really leverage a cache, you not only have to understand where a ...  Continue Reading

• Applying control theory concepts in software applications

  Control theory is a discipline originated in mathematics and engineering science but was adopted also in psychology, social sciences and other research domains. It deals with influencing the behaviour of dynamical systems. In this article it is ...  Continue Reading

• Comparing MySQL and Postgres 9.0 Replication

  Replication is one of the most popular features used in RDBMS’s today. Replication is used for disaster recovery purposes (i.e. backup or warm stand-by servers), reporting systems where query activity is offloaded onto another machine to conserve ...  Continue Reading

• Spring IoC vs.Google Guice: Comparing inversion of control containers

  Comparing Spring vs. Google Guice: By Example  Continue Reading

• Spring vs. Guice: The Clash of the IOC Containers

  Spring and Google Guice are two powerful dependency injection frameworks in use today. Both frameworks fully embrace the concepts of dependency injection, but each has its own way of implementing them. Although Spring provides many benefits, it ...  Continue Reading

• Dependency Injection in Java EE 6 - Part 5

  This series of articles introduces Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE (CDI), a key part of the Java EE 6 platform. In this article we will discuss CDI’s interaction with JSF in detail.  Continue Reading

• The Performance Paradox of the JVM: Why More Hardware Means More Failures

  Administrators are seeing their JVMs not crash, but pause, and just stop responding to requests, as though they were a 400 meter sprinter, stopping to catch their breath at the end of a race.  Continue Reading