TypeDB - A strongly-typed database

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TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system. TypeDB empowers you to tackle complex problems, and TypeQL is its query language. TypeDB allows you to model your domain based on logical and object-oriented principles. Composed of entity, relationship, and attribute types, as well as type hierarchies, roles, and rules, TypeDB allows you to think higher-level as opposed to join-tables, columns, documents, vertices, edges, and properties.

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Yasson - An official reference implementation of JSON Binding

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Yasson is a Java framework which provides a standard binding layer between Java classes and JSON documents. This is similar to what JAXB is doing in the XML world. Yasson is an official reference implementation of JSON Binding. It defines a default mapping algorithm for converting existing Java classes to JSON suitable for the most cases.

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Plush - The powerful template system that Go needs

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Plush is the templating system that Go both needs and deserves. Powerful, flexible, and extendable, Plush is there to make writing your templates that much easier.

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Ghost - The platform for professional publishers

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Ghost is a powerful app for new-media creators to publish, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members. It powers serious blogs, magazines and journalism from DuckDuckGo, Tinder, OpenAI, Sky News and many more.

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Buffalo - Rapid Web Development for Go

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Buffalo is a Go web development eco-system. Designed to make the life of a Go web developer easier. Buffalo starts by generating a web project for you that already has everything from front-end (JavaScript, SCSS, etc...) to back-end (database, routing, etc...) already hooked up and ready to run. From there it provides easy APIs to build your web application quickly in Go.

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React Media LightBox - Part 2

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In this blog, we will bring the essential features zoom control, download, fullscreen to enhance the view experience of the media items. Lightbox components provide options for captioning the media items as well. Brought all the features only with material design and there are no dependencies required for the functionalities of the media lightbox.

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React Reduce Vs Jotai

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While developing web applications, we built many components and having a data model across the application wide model will be difficult. We need common store management to update and get information across all the components. In React based Web UI, redux is the official centralized state management to be used which is internally wired as state changes to the component. There are other alternatives to redux which are light-weight and simple to use. One among them is Jotai, a minimalistic API for state management. In this blog we will take one of the redux examples given in the redux site and do the same in Jotai for deeper understanding.

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Build Simple Ecommerce site using React and Jotai

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Retail Ecommerce website can be created quickly with React. It can be created using React, Bootstrap, React DOM and Jotai. Data flow within the commerce site is done using Jotai in a light-weight manner. The main workflow of showing all the items in the gallery to user and user adding to the cart will be done as part of this blog.

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Getting Started with Spring Batch

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The best way to design a system for handling bulk workloads is to make it a batch system. If we are already using Spring, it will be easy to add a Spring Batch to the project. Spring batch provides a lot of boiler plate features required for batch processing like chunk based processing, transaction management and declarative input/output operations. It also provides job control for start, stop, restart, retry and skip processing also.

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React Media Lightbox

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Lightbox is a popular and widely used concept for showing the gallery of media files. It is a very impressive approach for the end user to glance through media files. Media files like audio or video will load the html audio or video controls.

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Uber's open source technology stack

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Uber, a taxi aggregation platform operates around the globe. It was started as monolith application and later re-architected as bunch of microservices, which gives them scalability. Uber uses lot of open source tools and they have contributed quite a lot projects back to the community. This article is about analyzing Uber's open source technology stack.

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Stackoverflow Open Source Technology Stack

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Stackoverflow is one of most widely used Q&A platform. It is the default choice of developers. It has over 100 million page views in a month and its Google page rank is 60. Check out its open source technology stack, the tools used to build such a popular website. Stackoverflow uses open source projects and also contributes to it.

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Open Source Technology Stack used in WhatsApp

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WhatsApp is a most widely used cross-platform mobile messaging app for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia. Users can send text, images videos, audio for free. It almost replaced SMS. It changed the way people interact with each other. Lets check out the technology behind WhatsApp

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Free and Open source tools to build OpenJDK in Windows

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OpenJDK is the open source implementation of Java Standard Edition. Oracle (Sun) JDK implementation is going to be based on OpenJDK. OpenJDK and Oracle JDK are almost similar. There are ready made binaries available for Linux distribution but you may need to build OpenJDK on windows.

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Zimbra - Enterprise Email Server Stack

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Zimbra is a Enterprise messaging and collaboration software. It is a good alternative to Microsoft Exchange server. Zimbra is a Email Server but they have not written anything related to SMTP server, rather they have integrated well know open source email server in to its package. Zimbra is a system of well connected / integrated multiple open source software which delivers enterprise quality to it. This article explains most important components which helps to build the enterprise product.

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