Top 5 Java Multithreading and Concurrency Courses for Experienced Programmers - Best Of Lot

If you are a Java developer and looking for some awesome resources e.g. books and courses to improve your multi-threading and concurrency skills in Java then you have come to the right place. In the past, I have shared books and tutorials on Java Concurrency and Multithreading and in this article, I am going to talk about some of the best free and paid course to learn multi-threading and concurrency in Java. You can join these free courses to improve your understanding of Java Concurrency and Multithreading. It's one of the most important skills for Java developers as almost all the companies who interviews Java developers pay particular attention to his knowledge and experience in this area.

Difference between @Component, @Service, @Controller, and @Repository in Spring

Before you learn the difference between @Component, @Service, @Controller, and @Repository annotations in Spring framework, it's important to understand the role of @Component annotation in Spring. During initial release of Spring, all beans are used to be declared in an XML file. For a large project, this quickly becomes a massive task and Spring guys recognize the problem rather quickly. In later versions, they provide annotation-based dependency injection and Java-based configuration. From Spring 2.5 annotation-based dependency injection was introduced, which automatically scans and register classes as Spring bean which is annotated using @Component annotation.

5 Courses to Learn Spring Framework in Depth in 2019

Spring Framework is a very important skill for Java developers, not only to get a Job as a Java developer but also for your career advancement. Since Spring is now used in almost every Java project, it becomes virtually mandatory to learn Spring framework. Now, the question comes, what is the best way to learn Spring framework? Is there any online courses out there which are focused on Spring? What are some good books and resources for learning Spring? These questions are very common among Java developers and I often see them on forums, online chat channel and even many of my readers also ask this to me on Facebook chats and email. Well, the best way to learn any technology is by coaching, online courses, and books.

Binary Tree PreOrder Traversal in Java - Recursion and Iteration Example

Unlike a linked list and array which are linear data structure and can only be traversed linearly, there are several ways to traverse a binary tree because of its hierarchical nature. The tree traversal algorithms are mainly divided into two types, the depth-first algorithms, and breadth-first algorithms. As their name suggests, in a depth-first algorithm, the tree is traversed downwards (towards the depth) before the next sibling is visited, the PreOrder, InOrder and PostOrder traversal of a binary tree is actually depth-first traversal algorithms. On the breadth-first algorithm, also known as level order traversal, the entire breadth of the tree is traversed before moving to the next level, hence it is also known as level order traversal.

Top 5 Courses to Learn Angular Framework in 2019 - Best of Lot

If you are a Web developer or someone who wants to learn Angular for web development and looking for some awesome resources e.g. books, online courses, and tutorials then you have come to the right place. In the past, I have shared some of the best Angular tutorials and today, In this article, I am going to share some of the best Angular courses to learn modern day web development. If you don't know what is Angular and how it helps you to develop modern day web development, let me give you a brief overview. It's a Javascript front-end framework which allows you to build a modern-day big e-commerce web application as well as a single page web application which runs on a browser.

5 Courses to Improve Email Writing for Programmers, IT Professionals, and Software Engineers

One of my readers emailed me a couple of days ago and asked If I could suggest something to improve his email writing skills? He says that he is very good at work and programming but sucks on writing emails and because of that he never gets the visibility he deserved, resulting in no promotion or career growth. This sounds me a very common problem, especially among programmers whose native language is not English, and who have never attended any business or email writing course. In fact, it was a problem with me as well but I slowly picked it up though I am still far behind with many people I know who have excellent email communication skills.

Linux Command to Find how Long a process is Running in UNIX

Hello guys, today, I am going to share one of the useful tips to find out how long a particular process is running in Linux. This is very useful while you are troubleshooting an issue and want to know whether your process or service is restarted fine on a daily or weekly basis. So you checked your process is running in Linux operating system and it's running fine, by using ps command. But now you want to know, from how long process is running, what is the start date of that process etc. Unfortunately, PS command in Linux or any UNIX based operating system doesn't provide that information.

Top 5 TypeScript Courses to Learn for Web Developers in 2019 - Best of Lot

Hello guys, if you are thinking to learn TypeScript this year and looking for some awesome resources like books, courses, and tutorials then you have come to the right place. In my last few articles, I have shared some of the best Angular framework tutorials and courses and today, I am going to share some of the best TypeScript online course you can join to learn it by yourself. Many programmers and web developers are learning TypeScript because of its powerful syntax and advanced OOP features and more importantly to developer Angular based application. Since the Angular team has chosen TypeScript as the official language for Angular development, it's important to know TypeScript if you want to make full use of Angular but that's not the only reason you should learn TypeScript.

Top 5 Frameworks Java Programmers Can Learn in 2019

Hello guys, if you are a Java developer and wondering which web development frameworks you should learn in 2019 then you have come to the right place. In this article, I am going to share the top 5 frameworks Java developers can learn to keep pace with modern day development. This article includes backend frameworks like Spring and Spring Boot as well as front-end frameworks like Angular 2+ and React JS. You might be wondering, why Java developer needs to learn Angular or JavaScript framework but the truth is that you need those to work in the real world. For example, you work in an application where backend is written in Java but front-end is written using Angular or React JS. 

Top 5 MySQL Courses for Programmers and DBAs to Learn Online - Best Of Lost

Hello guys, if you are interested in learning SQL with MySQL database and looking for some awesome resources e.g. books, tutorials, and online courses then you have come to the right place. In past, I have shared some useful books and tutorials and in this article, I am going to talk about some of the best MySQL online courses from Udemy and Pluarlsight which you can join to learn SQL and MySQL from the comfort of your office or home. In last a couple of years, you might have heard the statement that everybody should learn to code, which is great. Coding is now like reading, writing and speaking skill and in today's Information technology-centric world it is must have and there is no better way to start coding than learning SQL, the most popular programming language.

Top 5 Career Opportunities Senior Java Developers Can Pursue in 2019

If you are an experienced Java programmer which has done a good amount of coding and development i.e. someone with more than 5 to 8 years of experience, working as a senior Java developer or a technical lead and wondering how to grow to the next level then you have come to the right place. In this article, I'll share five career options experienced developer like you can choose to take your career to next level. Apart from becoming a project manager which is what many programmers chose, there are other more technical and better career opportunities are available now. It's especially great for Programmers with less or no people management skills or who love coding and development and always want to remain hands-on.

10 Courses to Learn Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Data Science in 2019 (Python and R)

Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Artificial intelligence are really hot at this moment and offering a lucrative career to programmers with high pay and exciting work. It's a great opportunity for programmers who are willing to learn these new skills and upgrade themselves. It's also important from the job perspective because Robots and Bots are getting smarter day by day, thanks to these technologies and most likely will take over some of the jobs which many programmers do today. Hence, it's important for software engineers and developers to upgrade themselves with these skills. Programmers with these skills are also commanding significantly higher salaries as data science is revolutionizing the world around us. Machine learning specialist is one of the top paid technical jobs in the world. However, most developers and IT professionals are yet to learn these valuable set of skills.

10 Example of lsof commands in UNIX and Linux

It's been a long time since I have written anything on UNIX or Linux commands, but today I'll talk about the lsof command, a utility command every system admin and developers love. The lsof command stands for list open file descriptors and as the name suggests, it is used to find open files by process. Since almost everything in UNIX are file, you can use lsof command to find an open regular file, a directory, a symbolic link, a block special file, an NFS mounted file, a socket stream, a shared library, a character special file, a regular pipe, a named pipe, an internet socket, a UNIX domain socket, and many others. I have mostly used it to find all the files opened by a particular process, which I will show you in the coming section.

Top 5 Courses to Learn Jenkins for DevOps Engineers and Java Programmers

In today's world of Agile and DevOps, Jenkins has become an indispensable tool for both Java programmers and DevOps engineers. Jenkins allows you to set up continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) pipeline, which reduces risk on Software development and delivery. This means hassle-free development and deployment. It also means quicker feedback because as soon as a commit has been made into a source control system like Git, Jenkins can start building artifacts and running unit tests. If the build failed due to an issue or if a unit test doesn't pass, you will receive an email instantly. This quick feedback loop ensures that your codebase remains error free.

Linux find + du + sort + head command Example - How to Search large Files and Directories in Linux to Free some Disk Space Quickly

Hello guys, 100% full disk space is a common problem and as a programmer or Linux user, you often need to free disk space by deleting biggest files and directories. In order to do that, you need to know some Linux find command examples to list and delete some biggest files and directories and that's what you will learn in this tutorial. As a Java developer, you also need to also support your application, most of which mostly run on Linux machines. Though production is monitored by the dedicated support teams and they receive regular alerts on the status of file system space, they often come running to you or the developer responsible about what to do when disk space is almost full or reaching 100%.

Top 10 Angular Tutorials and Courses for Web Developers - Best of Lot

Hello guys, if you are interested in learning the Angular framework, one of the best and most popular JavaScript frameworks for developing component-based Web GUI and looking for some awesome courses then you have come to the right place. In this article, I am going to share some of the best resources e.g. books, tutorials, and courses to learn the Angular framework, formerly known as Angular JS and now famous as Angular 2. It's backed by Google, hence you should not worry about it being out-dated and lose relevance in a couple of years. Any investment you made in learning Angular will pay you rich dividends in coming years.

How to implement Binary Search in Java without Recursion - Iterative algorithm

This week’s task is to implement a binary search in Java, you need to write both iterative and recursive binary search algorithm. In computer science, a binary search or half-interval search is a divide and conquer algorithm which locates the position of an item in a sorted array. Binary search works by comparing an input value to the middle element of the array. The comparison determines whether the element equals the input, less than the input or greater. When the element being compared to equals the input the search stops and typically returns the position of the element. If the element is not equal to the input then a comparison is made to determine whether the input is less than or greater than the element.

Top 5 IntelliJ IDEA and AndroidStudio Online Courses for Java and Android Programming - Best of Lot

There is no doubt that IntelliJ IDEA is THE best IDE for Java development, even though Eclipse may still be probably used by more people because it's FREE, IntelliJ IDEA is the most feature rich and complete IDE. The Android Studio, which is the official IDE for Android development in Java is also based upon IntelliJ IDEA, which further cement its place as the IDE Java developer should learn. The only thing which stops me and many other Java developers to moving from IntelliJ IDEA in the past was the lack of resources. Since Eclipse was free from the start, there are tons of resources e.g. books, courses, and tutorials are available. There are also a lot of resources to learn productivity tips e.g. keyboard shortcuts and debugging techniques, but there were not many for Intelli IDEA.

Top 5 Apache Kafka Courses to learn Online - Best of Lot

Hello guys, you might have heard about Apache Kafka, the next generation, Big Data messaging system which is handling billions of messages per day on companies like LinkedIn, Uber, Airbnb, Twitter etc. It's a revolutionary technology and perfect for today's mission-critical application which has so much data to process and analyzes. From last year, I have been sharing a lot of resources like books, courses, and tutorials to learn these sunrise technologies so that you can aware of these and learn it to make yourself more valuable or jump into some exciting career path. For example, In the past, I have shared some awesome courses on Big Data, Spark, and Hadoop and many of my readers requested me to share similar suggestions for Apache Kafka.

Grokking Algorithms Book Review - Best Data Structure and Algorithm Book for Beginner Programmer and Computer Science Students

Hello guys, I have read many books on data structures and algorithms like Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Corman and Algorithm design manual by Steve S. Skiena, so when I come to know about this book, I thought, just another book on algorithms, but I was wrong. This is not just another book on algorithms but one of the most interesting books you will ever read on Algorithms and Data structure. It doesn't cover all the data structure and algorithms you see in Computer Science but whatever it covers, it does really well and that's what matters most for beginner programmer or Computer Science students.

Top 5 Java 9 Courses to Learn Online - Best of Lot

The year of 2017 was the year of releases for Java developer. With releases of JDK 9, Spring 5, Spring Boot 2.0 and Spring Security 5.0 there was so much to learn for Java developers and all at once, but like many others, I didn't make a good process and I am looking to turn it around in 2018. One of my top priority goal for New Year to learn new features of Java 9 as quickly as possible to write more about it. It's also important for you to learn Java 9 quickly to improve your career prospects.

Top 5 Object Oriented Programming and Design Courses in Java - Best of Lot

There is no doubt that Object-oriented programming is a pillar of software development and also one of the reasons for the huge success of Java. Good knowledge of Object-oriented programming helps you to create better software. It also helps you to communicate your ideas better with your team members and fellow programmers. Despite being such an important technology, it's difficult to find programmers who understand OOP well. Many programmers just think that OOP is nothing more than Abstraction, Inheritance, Encapsulation, and Polymorphism, without truly understanding these concepts and mastering them.

Is "Java Concurrency in Practice" Still Valid in the Era of Java 8 and 11?

One of my reader Shobhit asked this question on my blog post about 12 must-reads advanced Java books for intermediate programmers - part1. I really like the question and thought that many Java programmers might have the same doubt whenever someone recommends them to read Java Concurrency in Practice. When this book came first in 2006, Java world was still not sure of about new concurrency changes made in Java 1.5, I think the first big attempt to improve Java's built-in support for multi-threading and concurrency. Many Java programmers were even not aware of new tools introduced in the API e.g. CountDownLatch, CyclicBarrier, ConcurrentHashMap and much more. The book offered them the seamless introduction of those tools and how they can use them to write high-performance concurrent Java applications.

10 Free Courses to Learn Python in Depth

There is no doubt that Python is currently the world's #1 programming language and the biggest advantage of that is it's bringing more and more people into the programming world. In recent years, I have seen more people learning Python than any other languages, yes, not even JavaScript. Many of them learning Python to explore some awesome Data Science and Machine learning libraries provided by Python. Some people are also learning Python for web development and there are still many developers who are learning Python for scripting and automating trivial tasks. It doesn't matter why you are learning Python at this moment, it's a great thing in itself that you have decided to learn Python.

Thread, Code and Data - How a Multithreading Java Program Actually Run

There are certain things, which you don't learn on academics or training class, you develop those understanding after few years of work experience, and then you realize, it was very basic, how come I had missed that all those years. Understanding of how a multi-threaded Java program executes is one of such things. You definitely have heard about threads, how to start a thread, how to stop a thread, definitions like its independent path of execution, all funky libraries to deal with inter-thread communication, yet when it comes to debugging a multithreaded Java program, you struggle.

Difference between @ContextConfiguration and @SpringApplicationConfiguration in Spring Boot Integration Test

Even though both @ContextConfiguration and @SpringApplicationConfiguration annotations are used along with SpringJUnit4ClassRunner to specify how to load the Spring application context, there is a subtle difference between them. Although @ContextConfiguration does a great job in loading application context it doesn't take full advantage of Spring Boot features. Spring Boot applications are ultimately loaded by either SpringApplication ( in case of the JAR) or SpringBootServletInitializer. This class not only loads the application context but also enables logging and loading of external properties specified in application.properties or application.yml file, and other features of Spring Boot framework, which is not loaded or enabled by the @ContextConfiguration annotation.