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A quick look at database types, AWS database services and when to use them
This article will provide an introduction to database types, their characteristics and the options available on AWS. The type of databases described are Relational, NoSQL and In-Memory databases. Relational Databases Relational databases are based on the relational data model which organises data into tables consisting of columns and rows. Each…
Uploading file: HTML5, BackboneJS and RESTFul services
In my previous post, I have introduced the sample application Account Manager. In this new post I want to describe implementation details of a functionality aimed at uploading the account’s picture. The starting point is the html page (in my architecture it is not a complete html page but a…
A Sample Web Application with Twitter Bootstrap, Backbone JS, RESTFul and J2EE/JPA backend.
In this post, I want to share with you my passion for cutting-edge web technologies and I want to demonstrate how to build modern full-stack web applications with lightweight frontend layer (entirely built up with Javascript and HTML techs), RestFul web services and J2EE/JPA backend. Inspired by Christophe Coenraets’ blog…