How-Tos

How to create AI agents with Neo4j Aura Agent

Neo4j Aura Agent is an end-to-end platform for creating agents, connecting them to knowledge graphs, and deploying to production using low-code and autogeneration tools. Let’s dive in.

By Zach Blumenfeld

Mar 19, 202610 mins

DatabasesDevelopment ToolsGenerative AI

AWS Lambda tutorial: Get started with serverless computing

12 steps to building an application in the Amazon cloud, without breaking a sweat or a budget

By Peter Wayner

Mar 19, 2018 9 mins

Amazon Web Services PaaS Serverless Computing

Git tutorial: Get started with Git version control

Learn how Git manages versions and how to install the necessary software to access Git servers where your software project will be stored

By William Rothwell

Mar 15, 2018 13 mins

Software Development

Git essentials: Get started with Git version control

Learn how Git manages versions and how to install the necessary software to access Git servers where your software project will be stored

By William Rothwell

Mar 15, 2018 14 mins

Development Tools Java Open Source

Big data analytics with Neo4j and Java, Part 1

Graph databases like Neo4j are ideal for modeling complex relationships–and they move through big data at lightspeed

By Steven Haines

Mar 13, 2018 18 mins

Careers Development Tools Open Source

How to use Microsoft’s Active Card in your chat apps

Information cards step outside the traditional chat format, to display formatted text and images, and even add interactions

By Simon Bisson

Mar 13, 2018 6 mins

Development Tools Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

How to implement background processing in ASP.Net Core

Take advantage of the IHostedService interface in ASP.Net Core to build and run background tasks or hosted services

By Joydip Kanjilal

Mar 12, 2018 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Web Development

R tutorial: How to reshape data in R

This book excerpt from “R for Everyone” details the methods in the R programming language to prepare your data for analysis

By Jared Lander

Mar 8, 2018 15 mins

Analytics R Language Software Development

Docker tutorial: Get started with Docker swarm mode

Learn how to create and manage Docker container clusters the easy way, with Docker’s native orchestration tool

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 7, 2018 7 mins

Cloud Computing Development Tools Devops

How to do integration testing in ASP.Net Core

Take advantage of xUnit and ASP.Net Core’s test host package to run integration tests on your ASP.Net Core web applications

By Joydip Kanjilal

Mar 5, 2018 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Web Development

PyTorch tutorial: Get started with deep learning in Python

Learn how to create a simple neural network, and a more accurate convolutional neural network, with the PyTorch deep learning library

By Ian Pointer

Mar 5, 2018 11 mins

Machine Learning Open Source Python

Introduction to metaprogramming in C++

This book excerpt from “C++ Templates, Second Edition” explains how to get more functional, more efficient, and more easily maintained code where user-defined computation happens at translation time

By David Vandevoorde, Douglas Gregor, and Nicolai M. Josuttis

Mar 1, 2018 29 mins

C++ Software Development

TiDB: Performance-tuning a distributed NewSQL database

A brief introduction to the open source hybrid transactional and analytical database and how to tune write operations for maximum performance

By Jinpeng Zhang

Feb 28, 2018 10 mins

Databases SQL Software Development

GitHub tutorial: Get started with GitHub

Every developer should be on GitHub. Follow these steps to create a repository, push commits, merge pull requests, and clone and fork other repos

By Martin Heller

Feb 26, 2018 10 mins

Development Tools Open Source Small and Medium Business

GitHub tutorial: Get started with GitHub

Every developer should be on GitHub. Follow these steps to create a repository, push commits, merge pull requests, and clone and fork other repos

By Martin Heller

Feb 26, 2018 10 mins

Development Tools Open Source Version Control Systems

Docker tutorial: Get started with Docker Compose

Learn how to use Docker’s native service configuration and deployment tool for testing and debugging multi-container apps

By Serdar Yegulalp

Feb 21, 2018 9 mins

Development Tools Devops Open Source

Docker tutorial: Get started with Docker Compose

Learn how to use Docker’s native service configuration and deployment tool for testing and debugging multi-container apps

By Serdar Yegulalp

Feb 21, 2018 9 mins

Development Tools Devops Open Source

How to use the iterator design pattern in C#

Take advantage of the iterator pattern to traverse aggregate objects without having to expose their underlying data structures

By Joydip Kanjilal

Feb 19, 2018 4 mins

C# Development Tools Small and Medium Business

A quick-and-dirty way to predict human behavior

The Alternating Least Squares (ALS) technique is fundamental to many machine learning applications. Here’s how it works

By Andrew C. Oliver

Feb 16, 2018 3 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Q# language: How to write quantum code in Visual Studio

Microsoft is making a big bet on a quantum computing future. Here’s how you are going to write code that uses those new machines

By Simon Bisson

Feb 13, 2018 6 mins

Software Development Technology Industry

How to work with LiteDB in C#

Take advantage of the fast, lightweight, and easy-to-use LiteDB for your desktop, mobile, and simple web applications

By Joydip Kanjilal

Feb 12, 2018 5 mins

C# Databases Small and Medium Business

Java language oddities

Java's handling of arrays and a few other language elements may surprise you

By Jeff Friesen

Feb 5, 2018 14 mins

Java

How to consume a Web API using RestSharp

Take advantage of the flexible and easy-to-use RestSharp HTTP API client to consume your REST APIs

By Joydip Kanjilal

Feb 5, 2018 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Web Development

Data structures and algorithms in Java, Part 3: Multidimensional arrays

Learn how to create multidimensional arrays and ragged arrays and use them in complex Java programs

By Jeff Friesen

Feb 1, 2018 13 mins

Java Software Development

How classification and clustering work: the easy way

People are often confused about what these are and what the difference is. So here is an explanation using the old-fashioned way: in an Excel spreadsheet

By Andrew C. Oliver

Feb 1, 2018 3 mins

Analytics Machine Learning Software Development

Why you should use a graph database

Graph databases excel for apps that explore many-to-many relationships, such as recommendation systems. Let’s look at an example

By Jeff Carpenter

Jan 31, 2018 11 mins

Databases Software Development

Alexa skill tutorial: How to write your first voice-assistant app

This step-by-step developer guide show you how to customize an Amazon Alexa skill to make your own directory or phone book.

By Sharon Machlis

Jan 30, 2018 21 mins

Software Development Web Development

How to use Microsoft Teams for chatops

Microsoft’s latest update to Teams adds new ways of linking chat to your apps and services via the Bot Framework

By Simon Bisson

Jan 30, 2018 5 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

How to implement a DelegatingHandler for X-HTTP-Method-Override in Web API

Take advantage of a DelegatingHandler and the X-HTTP-Method-Override in Web API to overcome browser and firewall constraints

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jan 29, 2018 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Web Development

Traffic-shaping WebSockets using Node.js and Redis

How to protect your WebSocket-enabled application against traffic spikes by using Redis as a real-time request counter

By Kyle J. Davis

Jan 24, 2018 13 mins

Databases JavaScript Web Development

When to use WebClient vs. HttpClient vs. HttpWebRequest

Understand the pros and cons of the .Net Framework's various native classes for working with HTTP requests and responses

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jan 22, 2018 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Web Development

Serverless computing with AWS Lambda, Part 2

Integrate AWS Lambda with DynamoDB, then call Lambda functions from a Java client

By Steven Haines

Jan 16, 2018 19 mins

Amazon Web Services Development Tools Web Development

How to get your own apps into the Azure Marketplace

The Azure Marketplace is more than a place to get SaaS apps—you can deliver your own apps through it as well

By Simon Bisson

Jan 16, 2018 6 mins

Microsoft Azure SaaS Technology Industry

How to build custom middleware in ASP.NET Core

Take advantage of ASP.NET Core middleware to customize your application’s handling of HTTP requests and responses.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jan 15, 2018 5 mins

Open Source Small and Medium Business Web Development

Serverless computing with AWS Lambda, Part 1

Get an overview of AWS Lambda's nanoservices architecture and execution model, then build your first Lambda function in Java

By Steven Haines

Jan 11, 2018 23 mins

Amazon Web Services Careers Development Tools

Better cloud management through cloud resource tagging

How to improve cloud governance and cloud cost management by implementing a global tagging policy

By Kim Weins

Jan 10, 2018 6 mins

Cloud Computing

Your first UWP application: Use this shortcut to get started

Microsoft’s open source Windows Template Studio speeds up application development for the post-Win32s era

By Simon Bisson

Jan 9, 2018 6 mins

Development Tools Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

How to work with the Interpreter design pattern

Take advantage of the Interpreter design pattern to represent your application’s business rules in terms of domain specific languages

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jan 8, 2018 4 mins

Microsoft .NET Software Development

DIY GPU server: Build your own PC for deep learning

Building your own GPU server isn't hard, and it can easily beat the cost of training deep learning models in the cloud

By Ian Pointer

Jan 8, 2018 9 mins

Machine Learning Technology Industry

How to implement a recommender system

Take advantage of matrix factorization and graph algorithms to give the users of your application exactly what they want

By Balazs Horanyi

Dec 20, 2017 8 mins

Machine Learning Software Development

How to create asynchronous web pages in ASP.Net

Take advantage of asynchronous web pages in ASP.Net to improve the responsiveness and scalability of your applications

By Joydip Kanjilal

Dec 18, 2017 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

How to choose the right Azure cloud VMs

As Microsoft’s cloud gets more complex, building infrastructure as a service gets easier

By Simon Bisson

Dec 12, 2017 6 mins

IaaS Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

Jenkins tutorial: Get started with Jenkins continuous delivery

How to use Jenkins Blue Ocean and NPM to create a CICD pipeline for a Node.js and React application

By Martin Heller

Dec 11, 2017 11 mins

App Testing Devops Software Development

How to implement a feature toggle in C#

Take advantage of feature toggles to manage application features without having to maintain multiple source code branches

By Joydip Kanjilal

Dec 11, 2017 4 mins

C# Small and Medium Business Software Development

Jenkins tutorial: Get started with Jenkins continuous delivery

How to use Jenkins Blue Ocean and NPM to create a CICD pipeline for a Node.js and React application

By Martin Heller

Dec 11, 2017 11 mins

App Testing JavaScript Web Development

Base64 encoding and decoding in Java 8

Java 8's new Base64 API could be just what you need to ensure data integrity in transit

By Jeff Friesen

Dec 6, 2017 17 mins

APIs Development Tools Java

Programming with Java APIs, Part 2: API definitions

Use API definitions to generate a Spring Web MVC app with an Angular 2 frontend

By Matthew Tyson

Dec 6, 2017 20 mins

APIs Development Tools Web Development

Tutorial: How to build microservices apps 

The microservices approach to building applications might seem strange at first. But it has proven itself to be a better alternative to the old monolithic beasts

By Lucas Carlson

Dec 6, 2017 8 mins

Software Development