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DevOps
Deployment Management Tools: Chef vs. Puppet vs. Ansible vs. SaltStack vs. Fabric
What are the pros and cons of Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack and Fabric? Working in production today often means continuous deployments…
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Enterprise Java
It’s easy to document your Play Framework REST API with Swagger
This post originally ran on http://swagger.io (7/30/2015) I having been using Play Framework as a Java-based, lightning-fast REST backend framework…
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Software Development
Examples of caching backfiring on performance
In 2015 it should not surprise anyone that caching frequently used data is likely to improve the performance of the…
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Core Java
Are annotations bad?
I eased off into this topic with my principles on my post about Spring XML vs. Annotations that other day.…
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Core Java
From Imperative to Pure-Functional and Back Again: Monads vs. Scoped Continuations
This post accompanies this video and won’t make too much sense without it Last month I gave a talk at the…
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Enterprise Java
Installing PostgreSQL PL/Java as a PostgreSQL Extension
In 2011 I wrote a series of articles on PostgreSQL PL/Java. The basic information is still solid but there is…
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Scala
Easy validation in Scala using Scalaz, Readers and ValidationNel
I’m working on a new book for Packt which shows how you can use various Scala frameworks to create REST…
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Core Java
Making Thread Dumps Intelligent
Long back I had learnt about something called Log MDC, and I was a big fan of it. I was…
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Enterprise Java
Hibernate: use join table alias on sqlRestriction
When using hibernate in case of complex queries there is the need to use sql. Therefore sqlRestrictions come to the…
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