Kafka for Java Developers
Apache Kafka is a high performance streaming platform that was originally developed by LinkedIn. It works as a replacement for a traditional message broker and it can achieve superior throughput, built-in partitioning, replication, and fault-tolerance when compared to other messaging systems. So if you want to build a large scale message processing application it may […]
Chaos Theory and Cyber Security
Nowadays, the skillful genesis of chaos turns out to be a key issue in many technological application fields such as engineering, medicine, communications, information storage, and, with particular importance, cryptography. Chaos theory is a branch of mathematics focusing on the study of chaos – practically the final result being highly sensitive to initial conditions. Chaotic […]
Maximize your coding speed with IntelliJ IDEA
We all live in a time where everything needs to be fast, where productivity and efficiency is our first priority. In this article we will discuss how to crush it as a Java developer using IntelliJ IDEA as your main integrated development environment. In the past few years this tool was highly updated and improved […]
Why security testing is important
Security is becoming increasingly important as technology advances. Infrastructure complexity is directly proportional with the effort needed to assess if you have covered every potentially vulnerable area. And it’s not only a matter of your company’s security, but your online security too. Rumor has it that information has become, in this day and age, both […]
Business Continuous Efficiency – A simple application that streamlines courier services
Today’s world is very fast and competitive. To be successful in this competitive world, we need to be aware of the computer and the information related to the business in question, because the computer and the information play a very important role. The right information available in the right place makes the decision-making process efficient. […]
Bayesian search. Is it the best way to tune your hyperparameters?
As you may know, every machine learning model, whether it’s a tree based one, or a deep neural network consists of trainable parameteres (weights, bias etc.) and hyperparameteres that can not be optimized during the training process. After acquiring a dataset, you have to initialize and optimize the weights of every layer, or just optimizing […]
Reliable Integration Tests Using SpringBoot and Docker
Description Testing enterprise applications has always been challenging due to the large number of external dependencies that are not always available during development and testing. Developers write the code on their local machines and perform automated tests on CI pipelines using mocks for the external systems, only hoping that the code will still work when […]
State management in React
Understanding State In an application, state is the interface between your data from any kind of backend or local change and the representation of this data with UI elements in the frontend. It could contain every interaction of a user with your application, an object which reflects the currently signed in user or the data […]
Exposing a SOAP, MQ or Database Service as a REST Web Service
Here is a simple Use Case implemented in IBM IntegrationBus 10 vs TIBCO BusinessWorks™ 6 Which one is easier to implement? What is best practice and what not? Which one has the most flexibility when it comes to configuration? We have a simple (common) scenario when we need to expose a Soap Web service (SOAP […]
Can AI be a partner in the new way of working?
With the recent changes our environment was subjected to by Covid-19, we have seen how remote working was accelerated at its fastest pace so far. Business leaders and Human Resources had to quickly adapt their working policies to assure business continuity. Many have started, though, making strategies for adapting this way of working based on […]