Toggle navigationNewsArticlesVideosJAX MagazineJAX Finance 2015JAX DevOps 2015searchDevOpsAgileJavaCareersOpen SourceIoTNetBeansEclipseJavaScriptTutorialsA peek into the crystal ball:5 IT forecasts for 2016The dead live longer: 5 arguments for the success of DartDocker and Security: How do they fit together?2016 will be the year remembered as when Java finally had Window Functions!Hadi Hariri: “We need to look at new things”Battle of the IDEsNetBeans 8.1 versus IntelliJ 15#intellij#netbeansNowadays, we have on the scene of the Java IDEs two main choices: NetBeans 8.1 or IntelliJ 15. As the eternal debate between Java Developers is always about what is the best IDE available for use, I got the idea to write this small post.Faster knowledge transferGood software architecture works just like the human brain#architecture#methodologiesHow much time have you wasted just trying to understand someone else’s source code that needs changing? Veteran software architect Dr. Carola Lilienthal discusses why software architectures need to reflect the human mechanisms for learning and understanding.JAX 2015 SessionThe dark art of Performance Tuning – From Newts to NewtonPerformance tuning is still considered to be a dark art that could not be easily formalized, scheduled into a predictable workflow.“Do more, more easily”Jooby: A micro web framework for Java 8#java#java 8#web frameworkJooby is a (relatively) new micro web framework inspired by express.js, which in line with the slogan by its creator Edgar Espina “do more, more easily” emphasizes the strengths of Java and would like to iron out its weaknesses.Last year's highlightsIf you’ve written Java Code in 2015 – Here are the trends you couldn’t have missed#docker#java#microservicesIn this post, we’re looking back on 5 of the topics and new developments that shaped our conversations in 2015.Paul Stack at the DevOps Conference 2015How to scale a logging infrastructure to accept a billion messages a day#microservicesOver the past year, OpenTable have been re-architecting their system from a monolithic architecture to move more towards microservices and small applications. As the infrastructure has changed, so too the logging infrastructure has had to change. In this session, recorded at the DevOps Conference, Paul Stack explains how they did it.Consumer-driven contract testing with PactMicroservices: Agreements must be kept#microservices“Pacta sunt servanda“, or in English, “agreements must be kept“. What was true in the middle ages is mandatory in the modern world of software development. Utilising (API-) contracts that are defined by several partners instead of just one, microservice architectures can be tested and developed easily and efficiently.New bindings and moreHome automation: openHAB 1.8 and first beta for openHAB 2.0 available#iotAs openHAB (Open Home Automation Bus) founder Kai Kreuzer announced, there are currently two new updates available for the open source, OSGi-based h