Year: 2016

What is full-stack development and why it is still alive and well

Due to the increased complexity of software systems, in recent years we have seen emerging two career paths for developers - front-end and back-end. One path we often forget is that of a full-stack developer. Discover in this article what is full-stack development and why it is still alive and well.

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N + 1 – the main cause of the poor performance of JEE applications coded with JPA

Many developers get enthusiastic about JPA in the beginning, only to become skeptical later because „Hibernate is slow” or „JPA barely moves”. This article describes the most frequently encountered problem in JPA, taking JPA 2.1 as a reference point and exemplifying different JPA implementations.

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Introduction to .NET Core

Since the appearance of .NET, software developers had to deal with fragmented versions of .NET, each of them being a different subset of .NET for each platform in the Microsoft Suite. Discover in this article the new concepts brought by .NET Core, along with the .NET Core architecture and benefits.

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Wireframes, Mockups and Prototypes – What Are They?

Wireframes, mockups and prototypes rapidly increased in popularity over the last few years. Despite this, product owners, marketing people and software engineers often have a different understanding of the meaning of each concept. Learn the differences between the three notions by reading this article.

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Clef – a magical 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) for WordPress

The classic one factor authentication proved weak in the face of the ever-increasing internet fraud attempts. Even with a strong password and heavy hashing, accounts are more vulnerable than ever. Learn in this article how to secure your WordPress accounts by using Clef, a secure 2FA solution.

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Spring I/O 2016 Highlights

This year, a delegation of six Java engineers from Fortech attended the largest European Spring related conference, Spring I/O, held in Barcelona. The 2-days event included a series of keynotes, presentations and workshops about the Spring Framework. Read here some takeaways from the conference.

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