Your build tool is your good friend: what sbt can do for Java developer

I think for developers picking the right build tool is a very important choice. For years I have been sticking…

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Java WebSockets (JSR-356) on Jetty 9.1

Jetty 9.1 is finally released, bringing Java WebSockets (JSR-356) to non-EE environments. It’s awesome news and today’s post will be…

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Coordination and service discovery with Apache Zookeeper

Service-oriented design has proven to be a successful solution for a huge variety of different distributed systems. When used properly,…

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Swagger: make developers love working with your REST API

As JAX-RS API is evolving, with version 2.0 released earlier this year under JSR-339 umbrella, it’s becoming even more easy…

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Easy Messaging with STOMP over WebSockets using Apollo

In my previous post I have covered couple of interesting use cases implementing STOMP messaging over Websockects using well-known message…

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Easy Messaging with STOMP over WebSockets using ActiveMQ and HornetQ

Messaging is an extremely powerful tool for building distributed software systems of different levels. Typically, at least in Java ecosystem,…

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Lightweight real-time charts with Play Framework and Scala using server-side events

Continuing a great journey with awesome Play Framework and Scala language, I would like to share yet another interesting implementation…

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Real-time charts with Play Framework and Scala: extreme productivity on JVM for web

Being a hardcore back-end developer, whenever I am thinking about building web application with some UI on JVM platform, I…

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Fault Injection with Byteman and JUnit

The time when our applications lived in isolation have passed long-long ago. Nowadays applications are a very complicated beasts talking…

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