(Benedict Fernandes) Distributed caching solutions often have to deal with the problem of a stale cache. This tutorial outlines various architectural patterns for dealing with this issue, including a new approach based on the principles of Change Data Capture (CDC).

(Troy L Coleman) Recently I was talking with my brother about the best way to store account user IDs and passwords. I trust my brother’s advice on this topic because at one point in his career he was a white-hat hacker.

(Roman Kharkovski) Imagine a person who needs to go downtown every work day and buys a bus (instead of a small car or motorbike) to drive to and from work being the only passenger on that bus. The other 40+ seats on the bus are empty most of the time (except when relatives come to visit from out of

(Willie Favero) The digital age has arrived… Again…. It is far more than anything we’ve ever seen before and makes all other “digital arrivals” seem pale in comparison.

(Walter Alvey) DB2 LUW Version 10.1 FIxpack 5 is now available and can be downloaded from http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24040170

(Abdel Monsef Ahmed) Most data integration specialists find that data loading and migration from a source to target are usually time-consuming and tedious tasks to perform. Now with the IBM Bluemix™ DataWorks service, you can load and migrate data from different sources to different targets easily.

(Graham Rawson) This IBM Redpaper publication is a study of the performance of a Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application that is hosted by an IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS) V5.2 Liberty JVM server that connects to an IBM DB2 for z/OS database server.

(Jack Vamvas) Question: The DIA8400C A bad page was encountered message appeared in the db2diag.log file

(Frits Jensen and Grzegorz Smolko) In this article we compare performance between latest versions of four application server runtimes: IBM WAS, IBM Liberty, Red Hat JBoss EAP and Red Hat WildFly. How does performance relate to your environment and to your choice of application servers you may ask yo

(Antonio Cangiano) I’m in San Francisco, but I didn’t bring any flowers for my hair. Chiefly due to the lack of hair. 🙂 What I brought with me however was a couple of suitcases and a great amount of enthusiasm. The suitcases are for my stay in the US until September; the enthusiasm goes out to the