This article explains how to use my Spring Boot Istio library to generate and create Istio resources on a Kubernetes cluster during application startup. The library is primarily intended for…
Istio Spring Boot Library Released
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Java, Spring, Kotlin, microservices, Kubernetes, containers
Startup CPU Boost in Kubernetes with In-Place Pod Resize
This article explains how to use the In-Place Pod Resize feature in Kubernetes, combined with Kube Startup CPU Boost, to speed up Java application startup. The In-Place Update of Pod…
gRPC in Spring Boot
This article explains how to use the Spring gRPC project to enable built-in support for gRPC services in a Spring Boot application. The Spring gRPC project has just announced its…
A Book: Hands-On Java with Kubernetes
My book about Java and Kubernetes has finally been published! The book “Hands-On Java with Kubernetes” is the result of several months of work and, in fact, a summary of…
Spring Boot Built-in API Versioning
This article explains how to use Spring Boot built-in API versioning feature to expose different versions of REST endpoints. This is one of the most interesting updates introduced with Spring…
MCP with Quarkus LangChain4j
This article shows how to use Quarkus LangChain4j support for MCP (Model Context Protocol) on both the server and client sides. You will learn how to serve tools and prompts…
Arconia for Spring Boot Dev Services and Observability
This article explains how to use the Arconia framework to enhance the developer experience with Spring Boot. This project is a recent initiative under active development. However, it caught my…
Quarkus with Buildpacks and OpenShift Builds
In this article, you will learn how to build Quarkus application images using Cloud Native Buildpacks and OpenShift Builds. Some time ago, I published a blog post about building with…
Running .NET Apps on OpenShift
This article will guide you on running a .NET application on OpenShift using the Source-to-Image (S2I) tool. While .NET is not my primary area of expertise, I have been working…
AI Tool Calling with Quarkus LangChain4j
This article will show you how to use Quarkus LangChain4j AI support with the most popular chat models for the "tool calling" feature. Tool calling (sometimes referred to as function…
New Book Published
My latest book Hands-On Java with Kubernetes is now available on Leanpub!
