Force.com platform

Recently, I happen to visit the Force.com platform web site and thought of finding out the benefits of this platform for Cloud based application development.

There are many reviews for this on internet, one of this is here - http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Building-for-the-Cloud-with-Forcecom-759200/

There is a complete eco system for Force.com platform, like developer community with certification programmes, companies directory for techies who can build apps for customers, online documentation, tools available for development, etc

Worth evaluating this option for new cloud application development.

http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Documentation

Thanks
Tejas Bavishi

MapReduce Design Patterns: Building Effective Algorithms and Analytics for Hadoop and Other Systems Book

MapReduce Design Patterns: Building Effective Algorithms and Analytics for Hadoop and Other Systems Book


I am eagerly awaiting for publish of this book. This one looks promising on Map Reduce design paterns and will be a good companion book for Hadoop developers.

This book is expected to publish sometime in December 2012.

Here's the link to the book - MapReduce Design Patterns: Building Effective Algorithms and Analytics for Hadoop and Other Systems


Happy reading :)

Tejas Bavishi

Hadoop Operations Book

It looks like that this book is a must have for Hadoop professionals and worth reading at least once. It talks about maintaining hadoop clusters, security, OS and network configuration,etc.

Will have to find out time to read this book - Hadoop operations

Happy reading :)

Tejas Bavishi

Hibernate code samples

Found a good web site that provides good Hibernate code samples on a variety of things.

Very useful - as a reference or tutorial. It can be found at - http://www.mkyong.com/tutorials/hibernate-tutorials/


Tejas Bavishi

Sonar - Open Source Quality Management made easy

Sonar is a vast open source tool, so not possible to summarize everything. It is a platform to manage code quality and analyse static code.

Features:

(1)    Provides a dashboard for health of several java projects.

(2)    Provides ability to drill down at source code level to find out quality violations on code.

(3)    Provides automated code review with more than 600 coding rules.

(4)    Has ability to run JUNit test cases and provide code coverage metrics.

(5)    Provides several metrics for quality like Lines of Code, Cyclomatic complexity, Duplicated code, etc.

(6)    Provides historic metrics on quality and gives past timeline on how quality metrics evolved.

(7)    Provides out of shelf integration with Maven based Java projects.

(8)    Provides out of the shelf integration with Checkstyle, PMD, Findbugs, Clover, Cobertura.

(9)    One interesting feature is about applying architectural design patterns. There is a concept of separation of concerns architectural design pattern, which means that there is a clear separation of software layers in the application and violations are reported in the quality metrics.

(10)Sonar is about quality metrics and so it is important that quality parameters are understood well by Project Manager. Here’s the link to Sonar Quality Metrics listing - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/Metric+definitions

(11)A continuous integration tool like Cruise Control has to be used to build project and register with Sonar for quality analysis. This should have frequency of daily nightly build. This will show correct metrics in Sonar.

(12)Another interesting view is – Resource Viewer. This shows each quality aspect of the Sonar for the Java Project under consideration. http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/The+resource+viewer

There is a blog on how to setup Sonar at - http://choudhury.com/blog/2011/06/12/using-sonar-in-your-java-maven-project/

Big Data with Spring Framework

I was pleasantly surprised to see MongoDB support by Spring framework.

Spring framework has inbuilt support / annotations for binding java classes to MongoDB data.

There is a good code example available at - http://www.mkyong.com/mongodb/spring-data-mongodb-hello-world-example/


Tejas Bavishi

JBoss EE6 with OpenShift

OpenShift has released PaaS (Platform as a Service) from Red Hat. It supports several frameworks like Java, Ruby, etc.

OpenShift PaaS has ready made stack configured for JBoss EE6. This means that JEE applications developed on JBoss platform can readily take advantage of OpenShift and which means, that automatic resource scaling will happen for JBoss applications.

You can find out more on OpenShift at https://openshift.redhat.com/app/

Tejas Bavishi