Category Archives: Web Development

AngularJS is a JavaScript framework that can help you write web applications quickly using less code. AngularJS is not a library, rather it is an entirely different way of thinking about writing web applications. As such, AngularJS has certain opinions … Continue reading →

As web applications continue to increase in complexity, new tools have emerged that can help developers better manage their code. With JavaScript libraries, powerful server-side frameworks, templating engines and even entirely new languages, the landscape of web development is at … Continue reading →

Apache Struts is one of the most popular web development frameworks, and Struts 2 adds significant functionality to the framework. Struts 2 supports action configuration via conventions and annotations, so components can now be written using annotations or XML. Large, … Continue reading →

Apache Cassandra is an open source NoSQL database that is designed to handle massive scalability challenges. In order to achieve its designated goal, Cassandra uses a non-orthodox data model that is quite different from the commonly used relational model. Essentially, … Continue reading →

More and more applications are now being ported to the web. The ubiquity of the browser, access to increased bandwidth at lower costs, and the explosion of mobile devices are all driving forces leading to an increase in the demand … Continue reading →

Node.js is a software stack for writing server-side applications in JavaScript. It employs an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model to achieve high throughput rates with minimal resource consumption. As such, it is very well suited to writing scalable, real-time applications that … Continue reading →

Lucene is an open source Java-based full text search engine library that can be integrated with nearly any software application requiring search capabilities. Lucene has been used in Internet search engines, as well as local and single-site searching for its … Continue reading →

Node.js is an open source stack for writing server-side applications in JavaScript. It’s a very handy tool for writing scalable, real-time apps. It can also be used to quickly prototype a piece of code before rewriting it in a traditional … Continue reading →

Apache Tomcat has become one of the most popular choices for web developers that are looking for an open source web application container to run JavaServer Pages and servlets. The popularity of Tomcat can be credited towards advanced features such … Continue reading →

Apache Hadoop is an open source software framework designed for writing and running distributed applications that process large amounts of data in a distributed system. Hadoop implements a computational paradigm known as MapReduce. The MapReduce model runs over Hadoop’s distributed … Continue reading →