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Engineering write-ups, AI playbooks and the odd war story from the DivIni team.

Data Engineering/12 min read

Scala for Modern Enterprise and Big Data

Scala combines object-oriented and functional programming on the JVM, and it is widely used with big data…

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Data Engineering/7 min read

Database Performance Optimization – Part 1

A fast application depends on a responsive database, and optimization starts with finding the bottlenecks…

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Data Engineering/7 min read

Database Performance Optimization – Part 2

Query tuning alone stops being enough as data and workloads grow. The second part of our database…

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Data Engineering/3 min read

Database Auditing

Recording who last changed a record is simple, but keeping the full history of every change…

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Data Engineering/5 min read

Advanced Auditing with Hibernate Envers

Hibernate Envers tracks every change to your entities as revisions, much like version control…

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Data Engineering/3 min read

Database Documentation and SchemaSpy

Teams rarely document their databases, yet knowing the schema is half of knowing the application…

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Security & Cryptography/8 min read

Cryptography – Basics

Data sent by email or message can be read by third parties if it is not protected…

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Security & Cryptography/6 min read

Cryptography – Advanced Techniques

The second post in our cryptography series moves past the basics to four advanced techniques…

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Security & Cryptography/5 min read

Cryptography – Key Takeaways

This summary of our cryptography series lists the practices that matter most when you secure data in an…

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