Pandora has quickly become one of the most popular music streaming services built on top of a Java, Scala, and Erlang infrastructure. It features the concept of customized radio stations that allow ...

The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three HTTP verbs: GET, POST and HEAD. The most commonly used HTTP method is GET. The purpose of the GET method ...

This represents a waterfall type of approach to project planning, where one phase flows into the other. It works well for certain industries such as construction and manufacturing, but it is less ...

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most used open source SQL databases, and both fulfill the role of a general-purpose database well. How do you choose which one to use for a project? Let's look at ...

Since its introduction in 2014 the Solidity programming language has become the de facto standard to write smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain network. Solidity is so popular that numerous ...

Pascal case -- or PascalCase -- is a programming naming convention where the first letter of each compound word in a variable is capitalized. The use of descriptive variable names is a software ...

When the World Wide Web Consortium designed WebAssembly, the primary goal was to address the shortcomings of running client-side JavaScript in a web browser. However, as developers begin to adopt and ...

A few months ago, I had a discussion with some friends online. The premise of the discussion was that even if you account for complexity, shorter code is more likely to be bug-free code. As a C ...

Army generals lead their soldiers using a command and control approach to leadership. Scrum masters prefer the servant-leader approach. A servant-leader is someone who the puts the well-being of team ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.

Microservices are a popular way to create enterprise systems that run at web scale. But the high cost of a microservices architecture, plus the lack of skilled personnel in the market, often prevent a ...