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By Matt Harrison This article was excerpted from the book Hapi.js in Action. Handlers are where you declare what should actually happen when a request matches one of your routes. The basic handler is just a JavaScript function with the signature: function (request, reply) {…} There are also a number of built-in handlers that you […]

By Raymond Roestenburg, Rob Bakker, and Rob Williams This article was excerpted from the book Akka in Action. A cluster is a dynamic group of nodes. On each node is an actor system that listens on the network. Clusters build on top of the akka-remote module. Clustering takes location transparency to the next level. The […]

By Anthony Brown This article was excerpted from the book Reactive Applications with Akka.NET. The Internet was initially started as a research project for the United States government. It then blossomed into the phenomenon it is today. The graph below shows the growth of the number of users of the Internet over the past 25 […]

An application framework consists of a software framework used by software developers to implement a structure of an application. A Web application framework, on the other hand, is a software framework that is designed to support the development of Web applications such as Web resources, Web services, and Web APIs. Sometimes, you can use different […]

By Christian Horsdal This article was excerpted from the book Microservices in .NET. When working with any non-trivial software systems, we must expect failures to occur. Hardware can fail. The software itself might fail due, for instance, to unforeseen usage or corrupt data. A distinguishing factor of a microservice system is that there is a […]

Editor’s Note: The following is contributed story about what is happening in technology with some of the younger, high school aged generation. Amit Kochavi, an 18-year-old entrepreneur from Tel Aviv, did not want to wait until after his military service to get a foothold in Israel’s startup ecosystem. And he doesn’t think any teenager with […]

The DevOps space is growing tremendously and significantly, but it’s proving to be a real challenge to address the inevitable enterprise concerns of standardization and governance without disrupting creativity and innovation. There’s still some debate about the best team structure, and DevOps is rapidly expanding beyond development and operations to include security, testing, business, and […]

By Manideep JavaScript has gone through different phases of development since its inception. Created by Brendan Eich, JavaScript was initially code named as Mocha and later it was renamed to LiveScript and now its termed as JavaScript. European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) is responsible for specifying standards for JavaScript. ECMA has released ES6, which is […]

By Nilesh Patel, KMS Technology Introduction Towards the end of development, every piece of software should be subjected to a final phase of testing. It doesn’t matter if you call it user acceptance testing, end user testing, or beta testing. The aim is the same: to ensure that the application meets the intended business functions […]

My current commercial project I develop in C++ requires printing capabilities. I tried to find a printing framework I can use and found out that I either have to implement all printing job by using winAPI/MFC printing functions (requires tons of code if you need to print many different forms), or have to use big […]

Disclaimer: Christoph is the author of upscaledb, which is an open source project with commercial licenses. He has written this article so the information can be used with other key-value databases as well. Introduction Chances are, if you are a developer then you have already written your own embedded database: a set of functions which […]

Ten Things Related to IoT (the Internet of Things) The Internet of Things (IoT) is among us and is taking over. My parents recently installed a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) alarm system in their house with central monitoring. What they installed was an IoT device that connects to the internet via a cellular connection. From anywhere in […]