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An Open Source history

• Alexandre Touret Raphaël Semeteys
• 11 Min To Read
• 29 Oct, 2018
• • Open source and collaboration

Introduction

“Linux is a cancer”, “Open source sofware is not sure and not secured”… Nowadays these affirmations sound weird, but a decade ago we could hear that kind of affirmations by some people working in IT. Currently, Open Source is everywhere, not only in software. This article is the first part of a series dedicated to Open Source’s world. In this first article we will cover the history from the beginning up to the mass market deployment.

Anomaly detection for predictive monitoring

• Corentin Berteloot Dalila Hattab John Edwards
• 7 Min To Read
• 26 Sep, 2018
• • Artificial intelligence and data science

Introduction

Monitoring, the practice of observing systems and determining if they are healthy, is hard and getting harder. There are many reasons for this: we are managing many more systems (servers and applications or services) and much more data than ever before, and we are monitoring them in higher resolution: it is not only possible but desirable to monitor practically everything we can, so we are also monitoring many more signals from these systems than we used to.

Tableau Conference 2018 Europe

• Philippe Verhaeghe
• 5 Min To Read
• 13 Aug, 2018
• • Professional conferences and events

The Tableau Conference Europe 2018 took place 3-4-5 July 2018 in London. I had the chance to attend.

From Java EE to Jakarta EE: a user perspective

• 7 Min To Read
• 06 Aug, 2018
• • Software engineering

Six months after my post Where is Java EE going? , I think it’s time to share an updated status before summer break.

Gradle, JUpiter, Kotlin and Mockito aboard the same boat

• Olivier Perez
• 6 Min To Read
• 30 Jul, 2018
• • Development and programming

Introduction

When you create a new Android project, Android Studio generates the boilerplate you need to quickstart it. It generates the first screen files, the Gradle configuration and some tests based on JUnit4. Today we will migrate these tests to the new JUnit platform with JUpiter , the new JUnit API.

New Web payment standards

• Liam Thiveux Anne Pouillard Olivier Maas
• 9 Min To Read
• 25 Jul, 2018
• • Web and mobile technology

Context

The W3C (which stands for World Wide Web Consortium) has initiated several working groups to standardize web payments and make them easier and more secure, especially on mobile devices. By the end of 2018, all major browsers will support W3C Web payment APIs.