Bulk vs Individual Compression

I’d like to share something very brief and very obvious – that compression works better with large amounts of data.…

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Making Sense of the Information Security Landscape

There are hundreds of different information security solutions out there and choosing which one to pick can be hard. Usually…

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Blockchainizing Existing Databases

Blockchain has been a buzzword for the past several years and it hasn’t lived to its promises (yet). The value…

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Seven Legacy Integration Patterns

If we have to integrate two (or more) systems nowadays, we know – we either use an API or, more…

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Using Multiple Dynamic Caches With Spring

In a third post about cache managers in spring (over a long period of time), I’d like to expand on…

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Low-Code, Rapid Application Development and Digital Transformation

Recently, many low-code/no-code solutions have gained speed in the enterprise, giving non-technical people the option to create simple applications. Analysts…

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AWS Alarms for Application Errors

Monitoring is key for any real-world application. You have to know what’s happening and be alerted in real time if…

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An AWS Elasticsearch Post-Mortem

So it happened that we had a production issue on the SaaS version of LogSentinel – our Elasticsearch stopped indexing…

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Running a Safe Database Cluster in AWS With Auto-Scaling Groups

When you have to run a scalable application on AWS, your database must also be scalable. It’s easier to scale…

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