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Big Data Scalability: Why Your Database Is Slow, and When You Should Start Scaling
By Cory Isaacson
Nov 12, 2014
Constant increases in the volume of Big Data worldwide have begun to overwhelm the database management systems on which we all rely. We need a comprehensive method for managing this overflow. Database expert Cory Isaacson, CEO/CTO of CodeFutures and author of Understanding Big Data Scalability, discusses how scaling can help to keep your databases from being overwhelmed, how you'll know when you should start scaling, and the best way to make it happen.
Binary Trees
By John Canning, Alan Broder, Robert Lafore
Nov 5, 2022

Binary trees are one of the fundamental data storage structures used in programming.

Block Definition Diagrams in SysML
By Lenny Delligatti
Nov 22, 2013
The Block Definition Diagram is the primary kind of diagram you create to communicate structural information about a system. This powerful design technique creates extensibility in your system design by decoupling the clients of services from any specific implementation of a provider of those services. As your stakeholders’ requirements evolve over time, you can modify existing providers or add new ones with minimal impact on the rest of the system design.
Blockchain is the Ultimate Serverless Platform
By Michael Juntao Yuan
Jun 3, 2020
Why you should be using Blockchain as a cloud computing platform.
Blockchain Technology
By Jai Singh Arun, Jerry Cuomo, Nitin Gaur
Mar 25, 2019

IBM Blockchain experts define the overall blockchain technology landscape and address the trust divide between an enterprise (permissioned) blockchain and a public, permissionless blockchain.

Boolean Logic in SQL
By Larry Rockoff
Nov 15, 2022
Introduces several operators that allow you to create complex logical expressions in SQL.
BPF and the I/O Stack
By Brendan Gregg
Jan 10, 2020
Demonstrates how BPF can trace at all layers of the storage I/O stack. The tools traced the block I/O layer, the I/O scheduler, SCSI, and nvme as an example driver.
Brian Foote on the 15th Anniversary of Design Patterns
By Brian Foote
Oct 29, 2009
Brian Foote shares his thoughts about Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software on the 15th anniversary of its publication.
Browser BASIC (BBASIC): Adding an Easy-to-Use and Portable Language to a Web Page
By Joseph W. Wilkinson
May 18, 2015
With Browser BASIC (BBASIC), a JavaScript application that embeds a BASIC language interpreter in a web page, you can create and use programs written in a variation of BASIC. Jeff Friesen introduces BBASIC with a tutorial and tour of the BBASIC architecture.
Build Your First Bootstrap Website with the Basic Template
By Jennifer Kyrnin
Dec 22, 2015
One thing you will learn when building a Bootstrap website is that the basics of using Bootstrap come down to adding a few lines of code to your HTML. In this excerpt from Bootstrap in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself, you will learn about the basic Bootstrap template as well as a few other sample templates you can use to add more features to your website.
Building a Better Benefits System
By Alan Cohen
Nov 8, 2017

The creator of one of the first private benefit exchange platforms lays the seven key principles that define a successful marketplace.

Building a Custom Linux Distribution
By Rudolf J. Streif
Sep 15, 2016

Build your own operating system images. Rudolf Streif details how to use the Yocto Project to create your own customized Linux distribution and provides an overview of the Linux distribution blueprints available with the build system and how to customize them.

Building a MapReduce Application with Hadoop
By Steven Haines
Jan 16, 2013
In the second article in this series on Java programming and Hadoop, Java programming expert Steven Haines explains what a MapReduce application is and how to build a simple one.
Building Alliances Between Testing and Other Teams
By Karen N. Johnson
Jun 17, 2009
Long-time tester Karen N. Johnson shares some of her best secrets for strengthening relationships between the testing team and the other teams that are part of the software process.
Building Business on Love and Care
By Rajendra S. Sisodia, Jagdish N. Sheth, David B. Wolfe
Mar 4, 2014
The authors of Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose, 2nd Edition introduce their book, which uncovers a holistic truth: that customers are best served by companies that create superior value and have close relationships with all their stakeholders—employees, suppliers, the communities in which they operate, and, of course, their stockholders.
Building Windows Applications in VB.NET
By Andy Baron, Duncan Mackenzie , Erik Porter, Joel Semeniuk
Dec 5, 2003
In Visual Basic .NET, the technologies that enable you to create "standard" windows applications are part of the .NET Framework, available to any .NET language. This is a huge change from earlier versions of Visual Basic. Learn what's different -- and how you can take advantage of it.
Building Your Lab
Dec 23, 2023
Business Goals and Digital Transformation
By Vaughn Vernon, Tomasz Jaskula
Sep 24, 2022
The importance of setting up business-driven breakthroughs with a focus on innovation with software products.
C# Methods and Parameters
By Mark Michaelis
Oct 7, 2020

Investigates the details of C# methods and their parameters. Includes passing by value, passing by reference, and returning data via an out parameter.

C# Methods and Parameters
By Mark Michaelis
Jul 18, 2018
This chapter investigates the details of C# methods and their parameters.

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