Marko Asplund

Marko is an enterprise technology architect working with client projects across different industry verticals and technologies. His assignments have involved diverse manifestations of server-based architectures, Java technologies and middleware: from SOA to RESTful architectures, from Java to Ruby and from relational to NoSQL databases. He is passionate about continuous improvement in all areas of software development including technology, code design, development practices, methodologies and tools.

Enterprise Java
Marko AsplundNovember 20th, 2017
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Scala client for Amazon Glacier
Amazon Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. Glacier offers…
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Software Development
Marko AsplundNovember 28th, 2016
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Extending a LVM based file system
A file system running out of space doesn’t always have to be a major catastrophe. The problem could be quite…
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Software Development
Marko AsplundJune 10th, 2015
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Web Framework Benchmarks – Round 10
TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks is a collaborative, open web framework benchmarking project that I blogged about last year (see An open…
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Software Development
Marko AsplundApril 20th, 2015
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What’s the strangest bug you’ve squashed?
As software engineers we’re tasked with creating solutions to customer’s business problems. Being complex systems, every once in a while…
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Software Development
Marko AsplundSeptember 16th, 2014
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An open web application framework benchmark
Selecting a platform for your next application development project can be a complex and burdensome undertaking. It can also be…
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Core Java
Marko AsplundJuly 18th, 2014
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Daemonizing JVM-based applications
Deployment architecture design is a vital part of any custom-built server-side application development project. Due to it’s significance, deployment architecture…
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Software Development
Marko AsplundApril 17th, 2014
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Thoughts on The Reactive Manifesto
Reactive programming is an emerging trend in software development that has gathered a lot of enthusiasm among technology connoisseurs during…
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Enterprise Java
Marko AsplundFebruary 20th, 2014
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Implementing Jersey 2 Spring integration
Jersey is the excellent Java JAX-RS specification reference implementation from Oracle. Last year, when we were starting to build RESTful…
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Software Development
Marko AsplundJuly 16th, 2013
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Practical NoSQL experiences with Apache Cassandra
Most of the backend systems I’ve worked with over the years have employed relational database storage in some role. Despite…
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