Technology listing related to full stack development (Jan 2020)

#1 Vagrant

Vagrant is an open-source software product for building and maintaining portable virtual software development environments, e.g. for VirtualBox, KVM, Hyper-V, Docker containers, VMware, and AWS. It tries to simplify the software configuration management of virtualizations in order to increase development productivity. Vagrant is written in the Ruby language, but its ecosystem supports development in a few languages.

Vagrant was originally tied to VirtualBox, but version 1.1 added support for other virtualization software such as VMware and KVM, and for server environments like Amazon EC2. Vagrant is written in Ruby, but it can be used in projects written in other programming languages such as PHP, Python, Java, C#, and JavaScript. Since version 1.6, Vagrant natively supports Docker containers, which in some cases can serve as a substitute for a fully virtualized operating system.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrant_(software)

#2 Jaeger Tracing

Jaeger, inspired by Dapper and OpenZipkin, is a distributed tracing system released as open source by Uber Technologies. It is used for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices-based distributed systems, including:

$ Distributed context propagation
$ Distributed transaction monitoring
$ Root cause analysis
$ Service dependency analysis
$ Performance / latency optimization

Uber published a blog post, Evolving Distributed Tracing at Uber, where they explain the history and reasons for the architectural choices made in Jaeger.

Features
$ OpenTracing compatible data model and instrumentation libraries in Go, Java, Node, Python and C++
$ Uses consistent upfront sampling with individual per service/endpoint probabilities
$ Multiple storage backends: Cassandra, Elasticsearch, memory.
$ Adaptive sampling (coming soon)
$ Post-collection data processing pipeline (coming soon)

Ref 1: https://www.jaegertracing.io/img/traces-ss.png
Ref 2: https://www.jaegertracing.io/img/trace-detail-ss.png
Ref 3: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/1.11/
Ref 4: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/1.11/features/

#3 MobaXterm

MobaXterm is a software that uses a set of optimized network tools included in a single exe file. MobaXterm integrates several network clients with an X server, and also integrates a full set of Unix based commands.

MobaXterm is an ideal toolbox for remote computing. The functions it provides are designed for the use of webmasters, IT administrators, programmers, and any users who need a simpler way to handle the remote aspects of their jobs. MobaXterm offers important remote network tools like SSH, RDP, FTP, X11, VNC, and MOSH. It also has a full set of Unix commands.

There are many advantages to having all of these remote tools in one server. When you use SSH protocols to securely connect to your remote server, MobaXterm will automatically pull up an SFTP browser so that you can edit your remote files. The embedded X server will also seamlessly display all of your remote applications on your Windows desktop.

The MobaXterm Home Edition is available for download and can be used completely for free. The MobaXterm Professional Edition comes with additional features for use in business, and requires a paid subscription. MobaXterm Professional costs $69 per user. It has every feature of the Home Edition but also includes customization of your logo and startup message; the ability to modify your profile script; unlimited sessions, macros, tunnels, and run time; master password support; professional support; and a lifetime right to the license.

MobaXterm is developed and updated by Mobatek.

#4 Spring Framework

The Spring Framework is an application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform. The framework's core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions for building web applications on top of the Java EE (Enterprise Edition) platform. Although the framework does not impose any specific programming model, it has become popular in the Java community as an addition to, or even replacement for the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) model. The Spring Framework is open source.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Framework

#5 Java Persistence API (JPA)

The Java Persistence API (JPA), in 2019 renamed to Jakarta Persistence[1], is a Java application programming interface specification that describes the management of relational data in applications using Java Platform, Standard Edition and Java Platform, Enterprise Edition/Jakarta EE.

Persistence in this context covers three areas:

- the API itself, defined in the javax.persistence package
- the Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL)
- object/relational metadata

The reference implementation for JPA is EclipseLink.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Persistence_API

#6 Hibernate (framework)

Hibernate ORM (or simply Hibernate) is an object-relational mapping tool for the Java programming language. It provides a framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a relational database. Hibernate handles object-relational impedance mismatch problems by replacing direct, persistent database accesses with high-level object handling functions.

Hibernate is free software that is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1.

Hibernate's primary feature is mapping from Java classes to database tables, and mapping from Java data types to SQL data types. Hibernate also provides data query and retrieval facilities. It generates SQL calls and relieves the developer from the manual handling and object conversion of the result set.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernate_(framework)

#7 Java Message Service

The Java Message Service (JMS) API is a Java message-oriented middleware API for sending messages between two or more clients.[1] It is an implementation to handle the producer–consumer problem. JMS is a part of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE), and was defined by a specification developed at Sun Microsystems, but which has since been guided by the Java Community Process.[2] It is a messaging standard that allows application components based on Java EE to create, send, receive, and read messages. It allows the communication between different components of a distributed application to be loosely coupled, reliable, and asynchronous.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Message_Service

#8 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a communication protocol for electronic mail transmission. As an Internet standard, SMTP was first defined in 1982 by RFC 821, and updated in 2008 by RFC 5321 to Extended SMTP additions, which is the protocol variety in widespread use today. Mail servers and other message transfer agents use SMTP to send and receive mail messages. Proprietary systems such as Microsoft Exchange and IBM Notes and webmail systems such as Outlook.com, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail may use non-standard protocols internally, but all use SMTP when sending to or receiving email from outside their own systems. SMTP servers commonly use the Transmission Control Protocol on port number 25.

User-level email clients typically use SMTP only for sending messages to a mail server for relaying, and typically submit outgoing email to the mail server on port 587 or 465 as per RFC 8314. For retrieving messages, IMAP and POP3 are standard, but proprietary servers also often implement proprietary protocols, e.g., Exchange ActiveSync.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol

#9 RESTful Web Services

Representational state transfer (REST) is a software architectural style that defines a set of constraints to be used for creating Web services. Web services that conform to the REST architectural style, called RESTful Web services, provide interoperability between computer systems on the Internet. RESTful Web services allow the requesting systems to access and manipulate textual representations of Web resources by using a uniform and predefined set of stateless operations. Other kinds of Web services, such as SOAP Web services, expose their own arbitrary sets of operations.

"Web resources" were first defined on the World Wide Web as documents or files identified by their URLs. However, today they have a much more generic and abstract definition that encompasses every thing or entity that can be identified, named, addressed, or handled, in any way whatsoever, on the Web. In a RESTful Web service, requests made to a resource's URI will elicit a response with a payload formatted in HTML, XML, JSON, or some other format. The response can confirm that some alteration has been made to the stored resource, and the response can provide hypertext links to other related resources or collections of resources. When HTTP is used, as is most common, the operations (HTTP methods) available are GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, CONNECT, OPTIONS and TRACE.

By using a stateless protocol and standard operations, RESTful systems aim for fast performance, reliability, and the ability to grow by reusing components that can be managed and updated without affecting the system as a whole, even while it is running.

The term representational state transfer was introduced and defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding in his doctoral dissertation. Fielding's dissertation explained the REST principles that were known as the "HTTP object model" beginning in 1994, and were used in designing the HTTP 1.1 and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) standards. The term is intended to evoke an image of how a well-designed Web application behaves: it is a network of Web resources (a virtual state-machine) where the user progresses through the application by selecting resource identifiers such as http://www.example.com/articles/21 and resource operations such as GET or POST (application state transitions), resulting in the next resource's representation (the next application state) being transferred to the end user for their use.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer

#10 SOAP Web Services

SOAP (abbreviation for Simple Object Access Protocol) is a messaging protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services in computer networks. Its purpose is to provide extensibility, neutrality and independence. It uses XML Information Set for its message format, and relies on application layer protocols, most often Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), although some legacy systems communicate over Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), for message negotiation and transmission.

SOAP allows developers to invoke processes running on disparate operating systems (such as Windows, macOS, and Linux) to authenticate, authorize, and communicate using Extensible Markup Language (XML). Since Web protocols like HTTP are installed and running on all operating systems, SOAP allows clients to invoke web services and receive responses independent of language and platforms.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP

#11 jQuery

jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, as well as event handling, CSS animation, and Ajax. It is free, open-source software using the permissive MIT License. As of May 2019, jQuery is used by 73% of the 10 million most popular websites. Web analysis indicates that it is the most widely deployed JavaScript library by a large margin, having 3 to 4 times more usage than any other JavaScript library.

jQuery's syntax is designed to make it easier to navigate a document, select DOM elements, create animations, handle events, and develop Ajax applications. jQuery also provides capabilities for developers to create plug-ins on top of the JavaScript library. This enables developers to create abstractions for low-level interaction and animation, advanced effects and high-level, themeable widgets. The modular approach to the jQuery library allows the creation of powerful dynamic web pages and Web applications.

The set of jQuery core features—DOM element selections, traversal and manipulation—enabled by its selector engine (named "Sizzle" from v1.3), created a new "programming style", fusing algorithms and DOM data structures. This style influenced the architecture of other JavaScript frameworks like YUI v3 and Dojo, later stimulating the creation of the standard Selectors API. Later, this style has been enhanced with a deeper algorithm-data fusion in a heir of jQuery, the D3.js framework.

Microsoft and Nokia bundle jQuery on their platforms. Microsoft includes it with Visual Studio for use within Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET MVC frameworks while Nokia has integrated it into the Web Run-Time widget development platform.

Stable release: 3.4.1 / (May 1, 2019; 8 months ago)
Repository: github.com/jquery/jquery
Written in: JavaScript
License: MIT

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery

#12 Angular (web framework)

Angular (commonly referred to as "Angular 2+" or "Angular v2 and above")[4][5] is a TypeScript-based open-source web application framework led by the Angular Team at Google and by a community of individuals and corporations. Angular is a complete rewrite from the same team that built AngularJS.

Differences between Angular and AngularJS
Angular was designed as a ground-up rewrite of AngularJS.

>> Angular does not have a concept of "scope" or controllers, instead it uses a hierarchy of components as its primary architectural characteristic.
>> Angular has a different expression syntax, focusing on "[ ]" for property binding, and "( )" for event binding[7]
>> Modularity – much core functionality has moved to modules
>> Angular recommends the use of Microsoft's TypeScript language, which introduces the following features:
>> Static Typing, including Generics
>> Annotations
>> TypeScript is a superset of ECMAScript 6 (ES6), and is backwards compatible with ECMAScript 5 (i.e.: JavaScript).
>> Dynamic loading
>> Asynchronous template compilations
>> Iterative callbacks provided by RxJS. RxJS limits state visibility and debugging, but these can be solved with reactive add-ons like ngReact or ngrx.
>> Support for Angular Universal, which runs Angular applications on servers

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_(web_framework)

#13 React (web framework)

React (also known as React.js or ReactJS) is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It is maintained by Facebook and a community of individual developers and companies.

React can be used as a base in the development of single-page or mobile applications. However React is only concerned with rendering data to the DOM and so creating React applications usually requires the use of additional libraries for state management, routing, and interaction with an API. Redux, React Router and axios are respective examples of such libraries.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/React_(web_framework)

#14 Quartz (scheduler)

Quartz is a job scheduling library that can be integrated into a wide variety of Java applications.

Quartz is generally used for enterprise class applications to support process workflow, system management (maintenance) actions and to provide timely services within the applications. Quartz also supports clustering.

Quartz is an open-source product from the Terracotta company.

There is also a port to .NET, called Quartz.NET.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_(scheduler)

#15 Apache Maven

Maven is a build automation tool used primarily for Java projects. Maven can also be used to build and manage projects written in C#, Ruby, Scala, and other languages. The Maven project is hosted by the Apache Software Foundation, where it was formerly part of the Jakarta Project.

Maven addresses two aspects of building software: how software is built, and its dependencies. Unlike earlier tools like Apache Ant, it uses conventions for the build procedure, and only exceptions need to be written down. An XML file describes the software project being built, its dependencies on other external modules and components, the build order, directories, and required plug-ins. It comes with pre-defined targets for performing certain well-defined tasks such as compilation of code and its packaging. Maven dynamically downloads Java libraries and Maven plug-ins from one or more repositories such as the Maven 2 Central Repository, and stores them in a local cache.[2] This local cache of downloaded artifacts can also be updated with artifacts created by local projects. Public repositories can also be updated.

Maven is built using a plugin-based architecture that allows it to make use of any application controllable through standard input. A plugin for the .NET framework exists and is maintained,[3] and a C/C++ native plugin is maintained for Maven 2.[4]

Alternative technologies like Gradle and sbt as build tools do not rely on XML, but keep the key concepts Maven introduced. With Apache Ivy, a dedicated dependency manager was developed as well that also supports Maven repositories.[5]

Apache Maven has support for reproducible builds.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Maven

#16 JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (or JBoss EAP) is a subscription-based/open-source Java EE-based application server runtime platform used for building, deploying, and hosting highly-transactional Java applications and services.[1] The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is part of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio of software.[2] Because it is Java-based, the JBoss application server operates across platforms; it is usable on any operating system that supports Java. The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform was developed by JBoss, now a division of Red Hat.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform

#17 JUnit 

JUnit is a unit testing framework for the Java programming language. JUnit has been important in the development of test-driven development, and is one of a family of unit testing frameworks which is collectively known as xUnit that originated with SUnit.

JUnit is linked as a JAR at compile-time; the framework resides under package junit.framework for JUnit 3.8 and earlier, and under package org.junit for JUnit 4 and later.

A research survey performed in 2013 across 10,000 Java projects hosted on GitHub found that JUnit (in a tie with slf4j-api), was the most commonly included external library. Each library was used by 30.7% of projects.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUnit

#18 Selenium

Selenium is a portable framework for testing web applications. Selenium provides a playback tool for authoring functional tests without the need to learn a test scripting language (Selenium IDE). It also provides a test domain-specific language (Selenese) to write tests in a number of popular programming languages, including C#, Groovy, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala. The tests can then run against most modern web browsers. Selenium runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It is open-source software released under the Apache License 2.0.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium_(software)

#19 Splunk

Splunk Inc. is an American public multinational corporation based in San Francisco, California, that produces software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a Web-style interface.

Splunk (the product) captures, indexes, and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations.

Splunk intends to make machine data accessible across an organization by identifying data patterns, providing metrics, diagnosing problems, and providing intelligence for business operations. Splunk is a horizontal technology used for application management, security and compliance, as well as business and web analytics. As of early 2016, Splunk had over 10,000 customers.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splunk

#20 LISA