A Spark application contains several components, all of which exist whether you’re running Spark on a single machine or across a cluster of hundreds or thousands of nodes. Each component has a ...

When Java developers start talking about application servers, Tomcat is often thrown into the mix. After all, it’s one of the most popular options for lightweight development scenarios, and in many ...

Component-based software helps you get a system working quickly, keep costs down, and reuse the most robust software from prior applications. This article presents methods for creating your own ...

As mentioned in the prior newsletter, this is the second of a three-part series in which our colleague Robin Layland is sharing insight from the just released “2010 Application Delivery Challenge“.

The use of open-source software components continues to be the standard for development, with about seven out of every 10 lines of code in the average application coming from an open-source project, a ...