The KivaKit Manifesto — A New Vision for Java

The KivaKit project is more than a modular application framework for Java. It’s a new way to think about coding…

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KivaKit – Docker Build Environment

KivaKit – Docker Build Environment    KivaKit 1.2.3 provides a Docker build environment that makes it easy to build KivaKit…

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Kernel – Message Formatting and Template Expansions

Kernel – Message Formatting and Template Expansions    The module kivakit-kernel supports a simple variable substitution syntax. This syntax can…

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KivaKit and AWS Lambda

KivaKit 1.2 adds seamless support for AWS Lambda. Lambdas for REST and GRPC can be added to a KivaKit Microservice…

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KivaKit Clustering

KivaKit Clustering   KivaKit provides built-in support for clustering of microservices using Apache Zookeeper. It supplies a cluster model that…

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KivaKit XML Streaming

KivaKit XML Streaming   Since Java 1.6 in 2006, Java has had a built-in XML streaming API in the package…

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KivaKit Microservices

KivaKit Microservices   KivaKit is designed to make coding microservices faster and easier. In this blog post, we will examine…

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Signaling and waiting for concurrent state changes

Java’s concurrency library (java.util.concurrent) provides a mutual-exclusion (mutex) Lock called ReentrantLock. This lock maintains a queue of threads that are…

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Kivakit Build

A poor man’s multiple-repository build system Refactoring feature branches across multiple repositories A common use case when working with multiple,…

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