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How to containerize your integration jobs with one click with Talend and Docker

Talend Data Integration is an enterprise data integration platform that provides visual design while generating simple Java. This lightweight, modular design approach is a great fit for containers. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through how to containerize your Talend job with a single click. All of the code examples in this post can be found on our Talend Job2Docker Git repository. The git readme also includes step-by-step instructions.

Updates from Bugfender Q2/2018

We’re really happy to announce that Bugfender 2.0 went live in last quarter – a long awaited release that brings many feature requests from our users. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your feedback. It’s truly invaluable and helps us to improve Bugfender every day. As some of you may be aware, the service experienced some occasional down time during June.

Conducting Effective Talend Job Design Reviews - A Primer

A common practice in any development team is to conduct code reviews, or at least it should be. This is a process where multiple developers inspect written code and discuss its design, implementation, and structure to increase quality and accuracy. Whether you subscribe to the notion of formal reviews or a more lightweight method (such as pair programming), code reviews have proven to be effective at finding defects and/or insufficiencies before they hit production.

Mobile App Launch Checklist

We created this resource to solve one basic problem: Once you go through all the work of building an app, how can you be sure to nail the landing? In the rush to get an app out, many developers can forget to tag releases or lose depository information that simply needed to be earmarked for a future update. There are some final security measures that need to be taken to protect your app. Whether it’s due to excitement or fatigue, it happens.

Friend or Foe?

In today’s world of readily available apps, whether on your phone or a cloud service, consumers do not expect a lot of training before starting to use them. Apps are designed to be intuitive and lead you through them in the way that you would expect them to work – as it relates to the purpose of the app. Same is true with analytical applications. The best ones are intuitive – they look familiar and are intuitive to navigate.

The difficulty of Memory Profiling in PHP

Did you ever have a memory leak in your PHP program and couldn't locate the exact source in your code? From my experience with memory profiling in PHP, this is caused by the PHP engine and how it manages memory. PHP uses a custom memory manager on top of the native memory management in C for multiple reasons...