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Spring Integration Testing with Spock Mocks

April 18th, 2017

How to inject Spock mocks into the Spring Context during integration tests.

Derek Eskens
JavaScript

Ahead of Time Compilation with Angular

April 14th, 2017

Pre-compiling your Angular code can significantly reduce bundle size and improve performance. In this article we will review an example app to see it in action.

Mike Plummer
JavaScript

How to install and use Headless Chrome on OSX

April 13th, 2017

EDIT: Headless Chrome is shipping in Chrome 59 so the need to use the full Canary path will eventually go away. You can check your Chrome version in the menu under Help > About Google Chrome. This walkthrough shows you how to get headless Chrome up…

Jim Cummins
Mobile

Nested weights are bad for performance

March 31st, 2017

You’ve almost certainly seen the lint error before “Nested weights are bad for performance.” How bad are they, though? My plan is to create a sample application with a nested view hierarchy using Linear Layouts and compare it to the same layout using…

Joseph Roskopf
JavaScript

Migrating from Cordova to React Native

March 13th, 2017

Cordova and React Native are JavaScript based frameworks for building cross-platform mobile apps. They differ greatly in their approach, with Cordova being embedded web view centric, and React Native being native centric. React Native is just one of…

Object Partners
JVM

Camel is closing JPA sessions

March 9th, 2017

Apache Camel closes the JPA session after a step on the route. This has ideas on how to fix it.

Mike Hostetler
Unknown

Spark Job Server for Persistent Contexts and Low Latency Jobs

March 7th, 2017

Spark Job Server for Persistent Contexts and Low Latency Jobs

James Dodson
JavaScript

Adding a Windows Universal Version to your Existing React Native App in VirtualBox

February 15th, 2017

Add the Universal Windows Platform to your existing React Native app, using a Windows 10 VM in VirtualBox, and the React Native Windows plugin

Object Partners
Devops

Managing Rancher container platform with Terraform

February 6th, 2017

Managing Rancher container platform with Terraform

Object Partners
JavaScript

Create a Universal Windows App with React Native in VirtualBox

January 27th, 2017

Start developing Universal Windows apps with React Native, using a Windows 10 VM in VirtualBox, with the React Native Windows plugin

Object Partners
JavaScript

Synchronizing Rest Service Schemas

January 25th, 2017

Synchronizing Rest Service Schemas

Mike Plummer
Devops

Automating Testing for Generated HTML Content using Gradle

January 13th, 2017

Validate generated HTML content in your continuous integration (CI) pipeline using Gradle.

Patrick Double
JavaScript

Faster Development with Webpack HMR, Angular 2, and Redux

December 28th, 2016

Describes how to take advantage of Webpack hot module replacement (HMR) in an Angular 2 app, with Redux.

Object Partners
JavaScript

Node.js Framework Comparison: Express.js vs Hapi.js

December 22nd, 2016

Exploring the differences between the Express.js and Hapi.js Node frameworks, considering strengths and weaknesses of each.

Object Partners
Company

Object Partners 2016 MN Holiday Open House Recap

December 16th, 2016

Thanks to all that showed up last night to spread a little holiday cheer, and to donate and support a great MN charity, One Warm Coat. As always, Gastrotruck did a wonderful job supplying the unique cuisine. And of course an Object Partners office…

Object Partners
Devops

From Cassandra to S3, with Spark

November 30th, 2016

Apache Cassandra, a scalable and high-availability platform, is a good choice for high volume event management applications, such as large deployments of sensors. Applications include telematics data for large fleets, smart meter telemetry in…

Object Partners
Unknown

Building Scalable IoT Applications with AWS IoT

November 21st, 2016

With the explosion of IoT devices across the world, handling communication with those devices in a secure, scalable and globally distributed manner is becoming increasingly important. Protocols such as MQTT offer a means for communicating with these…

David Reines
JavaScript

Adding Logging and Swagger to a Hapi Node Server

November 16th, 2016

Adding Logging and Swagger to a Hapi Node Server

Chris Ward
Unknown

The Human Side of Code Reviews

November 2nd, 2016

The Human Side of Code Reviews

Brandon Fish
Unknown

Simplifying Distributed Systems Using Apache Kafka

October 28th, 2016

Simplifying Distributed Systems Using Apache Kafka

Object Partners
Company

Object Partners Joins Rancher Labs Global Network

October 27th, 2016

Object Partners is pleased to announce our inclusion as a launch partner of the Rancher Partner Network . Rancher Labs is the company behind both the container based operating system, RancherOS , and the open source container platform service…

Object Partners
JVM

Implementing a Google DataFlow Pipeline

October 18th, 2016

Implementing a Google DataFlow Pipeline

Tim Drahn
JVM

Analyzing Kafka data streams with Spark

October 13th, 2016

An example Java 8 Spark application describes exactly once processing and analysis of a Kafka topic serving a (simulated) real time 911 call data stream.

Object Partners
JavaScript

Creating a Node server with Hapi and Joi

October 11th, 2016

Intro to creating a node server using Hapi instead of express. We will then look at validation use the Joi library.

Chris Ward
JVM

Using Flyway for database migrations in Ratpack apps

October 7th, 2016

Using Flyway for database migrations in Ratpack apps

Object Partners
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