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DevOps
AWS EBS in 4 Steps
When you fire up an AWS AMI, you are given a small partition of disk space that survives reboots. For…
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Enterprise Java
All Other Metrics Are Useless
When it comes to queues, whether they’re implemented as JMS, database tables (i.e. what Ruby’s Delayed::Job uses for a queue),…
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Software Development
The Significance of HTML5
HTML5 is important for three reasons. And its importance starts with the end of browser plugins. That’s right. With HTML5,…
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Core Java
Ahoy There Callbacks!
Because it’s my bag, I like JavaScript. In fact, I’ve grown to love JavaScritp’s asynchronous callback oriented style of programming.…
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Enterprise Java
Understanding ElasticSearch Analyzers
Sadly, lots of early Internet beer recipes aren’t necessarily in an easily digestible format; that is, these recipes are unstructured…
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Core Java
Imbibing the Fluency of Mockito
I recently found myself writing some code to integrate two disparate platforms. One of these systems is Java based and…
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Software Development
Sometimes TDD Requires a Hammer
While there are myriad mocking libraries available for the Java platform, only a select few of these nifty frameworks is…
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Android Core
Introducing Android Migrations
Have you ever worked with Rails’ migrations? They make database changes a breeze, don’t they? While every software release doesn’t…
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DevOps
MongoDB Pro Tip: Field Projections
Did you ever learn that select * from table in RDBMS-land is bad? Of course, you did! If you’re only…
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