by edvorkin | Sep 8, 2011 | Agile ALM, Blog, Java
Summary: In this post I share my experience in running Jenkins and Artifactory servers as unix daemons and monitor their availability. If any of this servers down, monitoring part can send alert or restart the server. This setup will provide your team with robust and...
by edvorkin | Sep 2, 2011 | BigData, Blog, Java
Summary: In this post I share my experience how easy it is to build a simple application using Play Framework and MongoDB. We will deploy it into PaaS – Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk for instant scalability and availability. Technology stack: NoSQL Datastore...
by edvorkin | Aug 11, 2011 | Agile ALM, Blog, Java
Continuous Integration is a process, not a set of tools, it is requires great amount of discipline from software development team members. The goal of Continuous Integration (CI) is to make sure that software is operational and working all the time. Another benefits...
by edvorkin | Jul 26, 2011 | Blog, Java
While it’s possible to have all configuration in a bean-wiring xml file, it is more beneficial to have environment specific configuration settings in a property file outside of the application. For example, having database connection string or REST API server...
by edvorkin | Jul 10, 2011 | Blog, Java, Twitter
This is a collection of most interesting tweets for the month of June. It is no surprise that Scala is a hot topic these days from the business perspective and we’ve got two different investors asking me pretty much the same question: where Scala will be in 5 years?...
by edvorkin | Jul 9, 2011 | Blog, Java
Switch statement The Java switch statement allows you to write an efficient multiple-branch statement without lots and lots of ugly nested ifs – like this: In Java 6 and before, the values for the cases can only be constants of: type byte, char, short, int (or,...
by edvorkin | Jun 25, 2011 | Blog, Java, Programming
I enjoyed watching this videos. It shows the world that we, programmers, are human being with a great sense of humor. The word nerd have something robotic in it. Those folks from JavaZone did an excellent job. Thanks to our Scandinavian colleagues. By the way –...
by edvorkin | Jun 19, 2011 | Blog, Java
By Lucas Jellema Java Enterprise Performance – Unburdended Applications View more presentations from Lucas...