As Java has evolved over the years, multiple attempts have been made to simplify development for various use cases. From official standards like Java Enterprise Edition, to community-driven frameworks, Java is continuing to prove itself to be adaptable and viable. Our top list is based on usage from Hotframework.com's Java ranking and several other sources including blog posts and GitHub download numbers.

In the second part of his series comparing CICD services for serverless applications, Erez Rokah, developer of the open source aws-testing-library, focuses on the popular commercial tool, CircleCI.

Let’s be honest: Network management is a big responsibility. It includes monitoring and controlling a computer network to ensure all of its resources—both hardware and software—are in good shape and are being used productively. And if you’re not a network expert (or don’t have one on your payroll), that probably sounds pretty intimidating. But there’s no time like the present to tackle the topic of network management head on.

In the last post, we talked about how Fastly, a content delivery network, provides a global infrastructure footprint to enterprises, and enables them to move apps and websites closer to their end users. Using Fastly CDN, they can serve content and deploy updates quickly, optimize web performance, and improve overall user experience. In this post, we will discuss how to collect, analyze, and monitor Fastly logs.

Organizations around the world are starting to grasp the often harsh reality that their employees’ digital experiences have a direct impact on their bottom line. Indeed, with employees increasingly dealing with ever-changing digital devices, tools and processes, they are also inevitably exposed to new IT problems and frustrations.

By Des Nnochiri In essence, the nature of business comes down to different companies exchanging value with supplier, partners, and customers. By “value”, we mean goods, services, money, and data. This is the fundamental basis of any business and it has to do this effectively in order to make a profit and survive.

Apache Ambari is an open source management tool that helps organizations operate Hadoop clusters at scale. Ambari provides a web UI and REST API to help users configure, spin up, and monitor Hadoop clusters with one centralized platform. As your Hadoop deployment grows in size and complexity, you need deep visibility into your clusters as well as the Ambari servers that manage them. If issues arise in Ambari, it can lead to problems in your data pipelines and cripple your ability to manage clusters.

Log management solutions can make it easy to filter, aggregate, and analyze your log data. Whether you leverage JSON format or process your logs in order to extract attributes, you can slice and dice your logs using the information they provide such as timestamp, HTTP status code, or database user. But different technologies and data sources often label similar information differently, making it difficult to aggregate data across multiple sources.

Monitoring is an essential aspect of any IT system. System metrics such as CPU, RAM, disk usage, and network throughput are the basic building blocks of a monitoring setup. Nowadays, they are often supplemented by higher-level metrics that measure the performance of the application (or microservice) itself as seen by its users (human beings on the internet or other microservices in the same or different clusters).

We are delighted to announce the availability of Squared Up version 4.3, continuing our approach of bringing you frequent updates to the product. Version 4.2 was released just two months ago, and 4.1 two months before that. Each new release brings bug fixes, quality improvements and in this case some cool new features too. For a demo of these new features take a look at the webinar 'Squared Up – v4.3 Release'.