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Tracing bugs, errors and the cause of lagging performance can be cumbersome, especially when functionality is distributed over multiple microservices.

In order to keep track of these issues, the usage of an ELK stack (or any similar sytem) is already a big step forward in creating a clear overview

After reading the Java 9 modularity book by Sander Mak and Paul Bakker (excellent book btw), I was wondering how many Java libraries already had been migrated to Java 9 modules. I couldn't find much about it, except for Stephen Colebourne's Module names for Java SE 9.

In product development advanced tooling and so-called 'proven' development methods can sometimes cause more problems than they solve. For instance when they distract the development team from what they should really be focussing on: the end result, the product itself.

Ok, I have to admit, I am not (yet) a Solr expert. However, I have been working now with elasticsearch for years and the fundamentals of obtaining relevant results for Solr and Elasticsearch are still the same.

Here is an easy Step by Step guide to installing PySpark and Apache Spark on MacOS.

Homebrew makes installing applications and languages on a Mac OS a lot easier. You can get Homebrew by following the instructions on its website.

In recent years there is much attention to bringing machine learning models in production whereas up to a few years ago the results of machine learning came into slides or some dashboards. Bringing machine learning in production is important to integrate the outputs of machine learning with other sy