DB Lens - Database explorer for Mac, Windows & Linux

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DB Lens is an open-source database client that helps you to explore database, understand data relations more quickly with automatic ER diagrams, visualise and analyse internal DB metrics such as index utilisation sequential scans, slow running queries, storage and many more.

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DbGate- Database manager for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, SQLite and others

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DbGate is cross-platform database manager. It's designed to be simple to use and effective, when working with more databases simultaneously. But there are also many advanced features like schema compare, visual query designer, chart visualisation or batch export and import. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL ,SQL Server, MongoDB, Redis, SQLite, Amazon Redshift, CockroachDB, and MariaDB.

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Kafka UI - Open-Source Web UI for Apache Kafka Management

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Kafka UI is a UI for Apache Kafka to monitor and manage Apache Kafka clusters. It is a simple tool that makes your data flows observable, helps find and troubleshoot issues faster and deliver optimal performance. Its lightweight dashboard makes it easy to track key metrics of your Kafka clusters - Brokers, Topics, Partitions, Production, and Consumption.

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SQLiteBrowser- DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) project

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DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) is a high quality, visual, open source tool to create, design, and edit database files compatible with SQLite. It is for users and developers wanting to create databases, search, and edit data. It uses a familiar spreadsheet-like interface, and you don't need to learn complicated SQL commands.

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Ant Design - An enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library

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Ant Design is an enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library. It provides plenty of UI components to enrich your web applications, and we will improve components experience consistently. It supports Server side rendering, Theme customization, Internationalization support and lot more.

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Laravel Paypal Integration - Smart button with server-side integration

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You would have seen a lot of blogs for paypal php integration with REST api which is driven completely in the backend. For checkout, paypal provides an easy way to checkout for client side ready-to-use smart button payment. This approach will work only from the frontend, which will not be safe and difficult to reconcile as the backend does not have any information about it. Server side integration with the paypal smart button will help us to reconcile or track the payments even after some issues in the users payment journey. In this blog, we have walkthrough the paypal smart button with server side php laravel integration.

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Data Fetching and Form Building using NextJS

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Next.js is one of the easy-to-learn frameworks for server-side pre-render pages for client-side web applications. In this blog, we will see how we can fetch data from API and make it pre-render pages. Also, let's see how forms work in Next.js and collect the data without maintaining the database.

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Data dumping through REST API using Spring Batch

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Most of the cloud services provide API to fetch their data. But data will be given as paginated results as returning the complete data will overshoot the response payload. To discover the complete list of books or e-courses or cloud machine details, we need to call the API page-wise till the end. In this scenario, we can use Spring Batch to get the data page by page and dump it into a file.

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Build Consulting Website using Next.js

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One of the popular web framework for building Single page application (SPA) or static site is React library. Application built with React packages will be rendered completely on the client side browser. If you want to reduce the load on client side browser, we need to pre-render the pages in server (Serer side rendering) and serve it to the client. So the client loads the page like simple html page. Also if the pages are rendered from server then search engine will be able to fetch and extract the pages. To do SSR for React, the best abstraction framework is Next.js. In this blog, we will explain how to build a simple consulting website using NextJS.

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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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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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