Software Development
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Critical Mass of Tests for Continuous Deployment
Does this situation sound familiar? An engineering team relies on manual testing for quality assurance and preventing regressions. The manual…
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#GeekListener v.2
Hello everyone, java and scala developers, big data engineers, geeks and random readers who opened the #GeekListener digest. So what…
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Is your code too concrete?
A post of note Mark Tiele Westra wrote a splendid post two years ago, “The ball of mud transition,” in…
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Getting Started with the MapR Command Line (Part I)
The Apache Hadoop community has give us a great set of tools that allow us to interact with the Hadoop…
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Microservices: The Essential Practices
Before we jump and try to explore the practices we must master in order to successfully implement microservices architecture, let…
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How to Find the Longest Consecutive Series of Events in SQL
A very interesting problem that can be solved very easily with SQL is to find consecutive series of events in…
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Comparing SQL Functions and Performance with Apache Spark and Apache Drill
SQL engines for Hadoop differ in their approach and functionality. My focus for this blog post is to compare and…
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Microservices: When the Stars Aligned
In The History of Failed Initiatives I mentioned that microservices as a concept existed for a long time. And yet,…
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Growing Your Tech Stack: When to Say No
Someone on your team has an exciting suggestion, a new technology to introduce. But is it a good idea? It’s…
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