Thoughts on the Jakarta EE package name change

The Eclipse Foundation announced that Jakarta EE cannot continue to use the javax package name. Apparently this comes with the…

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Thoughts on Quarkus

Quarkus, the new “supersonic, subatomic” Java framework is currently getting a lot of attention. The ideas behind this build and…

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Hot-deploying Java Enterprise with WAD & Docker

I’ve recorded a video how to minimize the development turnaround times with Watch and Deploy (WAD) by Adam Bien and…

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Monitoring Open Liberty with Prometheus & Grafana

I’ve recorded a video how to add monitoring to Open Liberty instances using Prometheus and Grafana, by simply configuring server…

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Applying Bulkheads And Backpressure using MicroProfile

I’ve recorded a video how to implement the bulkheads and backpressure using MicroProfile Fault Tolerance. The idea behind bulkheads is…

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Monitor applications using Prometheus Operator on Kubernetes

You can make the Prometheus configuration aware of the Kubernetes environment your applications are running in. I’ve described how to…

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MicroProfile 2.2 BOM import support

MicroProfile 2.2 just has been released with updates to the Fault Tolerance, Open Tracing, Open API, and Rest Client APIs.…

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Discover applications running on Kubernetes with Prometheus

Prometheus supports scraping multiple instances of an application. Applications that run in orchestrated environments require to be discovered dynamically, since…

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Selecting Git commits by message

  In order to checkout, cherry-pick, or reset Git commits, you don’t have to provide their SHA commit hash. All…

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