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• A guide to open source technology in application development

  The open source community continuously adapts to address the latest application development and deployment needs of organizations large and small. What can these tools do for you? Continue Reading

• WSO2

  WSO2 is a middleware vendor that sells open source application program interface (API) management software. Continue Reading

• 5 essential tips for logging microservices

  Creating a log system for distributed microservices is a task much easier said than done. Joydip Kanjilal offers five quick tips to shore up microservices logging processes. Continue Reading

• An introduction to combining CQRS and event sourcing

  Combining CQRS and event sourcing is a powerful way to maintain data speed and consistency for web-scale applications. Learn about the pros and cons of pairing these two processes. Continue Reading

• The enterprise architect's guide to application state management

  If your project is caught in a state-related conundrum, keep this guide handy when you need to untangle complex stateful and stateless app design and management predicaments. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • WSO2
  • dependency injection
  • open API (public API)
  • source code

  • user interface (UI)
  • REST (REpresentational State Transfer)
  • RESTful API (REST API)
  • application program interface (API)

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• dependency injection

  In object-oriented programming (OOP) software design, dependency injection (DI) is the process of supplying a resource that a given piece of code requires.Continue Reading

• 6 quick facts about a Java microservices architecture

  Building microservices in Java may not be as simple as it seems. Here are six quick facts and tips that will help you with Java-based microservices development.Continue Reading

• The right (and wrong) way to think about code refactoring

  Code refactoring keeps code clean, sharp and efficient -- ideally without changing any of its functionality. Learn how to refactor code without interrupting your deployment pipeline.Continue Reading

• Scala: Lightweight functional programming for Java

  Scala provides a lightweight code option for Java development, but there could be a steep learning curve. Learn a little about Scala and if it's worth adopting.Continue Reading

• 3 ways to implement a functional programming architecture

  Functional programming, which came about as a highly theoretical, mathematical way to build software, has a place in APIs and other components of applications.Continue Reading

• The vital guide to modern programming languages and their uses

  Get to know programming languages that match modern development styles and architectures like mobile dev, serverless computing and microservices.Continue Reading

• Compare microservices deployment patterns for best strategy

  To solve pesky deployment woes, match your app to a microservices deployment pattern, like single service instance per host, multiple service instances per host or even serverless.Continue Reading

• Choose an event-processing architecture for an application

  Sift through the state control methods that exist for event-driven applications and see which architecture type is the best fit.Continue Reading

• Elixir functional programming enables concurrency, fault tolerance

  Developers can combine features of Erlang functional programming with a newer language, Elixir, which promises simplicity and fault-tolerant operations for distributed applications.Continue Reading

• open API (public API)

  An open API, also known as a public API, is an application programming interface made publicly available to software developers.Continue Reading