Standing Up DevOps

March 15, 2015

While originally DevOps was popularized by Web (Cloud) -based companies, such as Flickr and Netflix, large enterprises, in one form or another, have long been…

DevOps in a Nutshell

March 8, 2015

DevOps is nowadays a big thing and in this post we will try to explain what this practice is in practical terms. The term DevOps…

Netflix in Flames

December 10, 2014

Recently I came across this blog post. The title sounded quite intriguing and when reading it, I found some points of interest that I will…

Using the k-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm in R

November 25, 2013

k-Nearest Neighbors is a supervised machine learning algorithm for object classification that is widely used in data science and business analytics. In this post, I…

Building a Bi-Directional Event Bus with the Google Guava

September 14, 2013

The Google Guava is an open-source project released under Apache License 2.0 (a very permissive one) that bundles several core Java libraries used by Google…

Testing Cordova Hybrid Apps in Worklight

August 29, 2013

Recently I worked on a project that introduced me to IBM® Worklight® mobile application platform. Among other things, I was pleasantly surprised at the price…

Java EE 8 and beyond

August 25, 2013

Every new release of the Java EE platform makes it incrementally better by adding new features or simplifying its interfaces which was also the main…