Category: SENIOR IT

An encouragement guide introducing 3 popular NoSQL databases to Java developers

Hard to imagine a microservices based project without at least one NoSQL database. It feels like they’ve taken dominance over old fashioned relational SQL databases. However, DB-Engines ranking still has SQL databases as top 4 most used (image 1.1.), but this is mostly due to legacy projects maintaining their existing databases and licenses, and not being able to justify the budget for migration. This conclusion can be linked with the trend chart (1.2.), which shows that in the last 6 years most popular SQL databases have gained no momentum, while NoSQL databases are on the constant rise.

As a SharePoint developer I have traced different approaches and possibilities of the SharePoint customizations over the years. If you are my colleague, working with SharePoint, you have probably experienced different ups and downs working on SP projects, especially in the development department as the customization approaches have changed over the years and versions of the platform. So, we have built C#/.NET based web parts exclusively in the beginning, but we have also used Script Editor Web part – it was easy to customize DOM on the classic SP sites this way, but we have learned that it cannot be used on “NoScript” sites. Later we got App Parts – Developed using Add-in model, placed in an iframe. Development of it is a little bit complicated and it is not able to access DOM of SP page.

Amazon EC2 stands for Elastic Cloud Computing. It is a web service that provides application hosting on virtual machines called instances using simple interfaces. Main benefits are reduced cost of virtual machines compared to physical ones, fast and simple maintenance and no downtime.

Amazon EC2 provides elastic web-scale computing which enables you to increase or decrease capacity within minutes.
You have complete control over your instances as you would have over physical ones. It is a flexible cloud hosting service that gives you choice of instance types, operating systems and software packages.
Amazon EC2 is highly secure and works in conjunction with Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) to provide security and robust networking functionality.
It is very simple to start with and there is an option to try Amazon EC2 for free.