Scala client for Amazon Glacier

Amazon Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. Glacier offers…

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Extending a LVM based file system

A file system running out of space doesn’t always have to be a major catastrophe. The problem could be quite…

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Web Framework Benchmarks – Round 10

TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks is a collaborative, open web framework benchmarking project that I blogged about last year (see An open…

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What’s the strangest bug you’ve squashed?

As software engineers we’re tasked with creating solutions to customer’s business problems. Being complex systems, every once in a while…

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An open web application framework benchmark

Selecting a platform for your next application development project can be a complex and burdensome undertaking. It can also be…

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Daemonizing JVM-based applications

Deployment architecture design is a vital part of any custom-built server-side application development project. Due to it’s significance, deployment architecture…

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Thoughts on The Reactive Manifesto

Reactive programming is an emerging trend in software development that has gathered a lot of enthusiasm among technology connoisseurs during…

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Implementing Jersey 2 Spring integration

Jersey is the excellent Java JAX-RS specification reference implementation from Oracle. Last year, when we were starting to build RESTful…

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Practical NoSQL experiences with Apache Cassandra

Most of the backend systems I’ve worked with over the years have employed relational database storage in some role. Despite…

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