Revisting Swagger

Lately, I am getting a few 'how to do' inquiries on my last Swagger posting. Most questions involve either renaming or sorting REST controllers. I also ran into a few interesting Swagger challenges in the last couple of months. Now that it has been over a year since my lasting posting on Swagger, it is a good time to revisit the subject.

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What is Docker?

Over the past one year, I posted a couple of blogs on Docker. I am not fully convinced that I have fully grasped or explained what Docker is. This is another attempt to fully understand and explain the basic concepts of Docker and the evolution of virtualization.

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XML Processing with Hive XML SerDe

Hive XML SerDe is an XML processing library based on Hive  SerDe  (serializer / deserializer) framework. It relies on XmlInputFormat from Apache Mahout project to shred the input file into XML fragments based on specific start and end tags. You can find more about XmlInputFormat in “Hadoop in Practice”.

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