This article will teach you how to use Backstage in your app development and create software templates to generate a typical Spring Boot app. Backstage is an open-source framework for…
Getting Started with Backstage
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Interesting Facts About Java Streams and Collections
This article will show some interesting features of Java Streams and Collections you may not heard about. We will look at both the latest API enhancements as well as the…
Java Flight Recorder on Kubernetes
In this article, you will learn how to continuously monitor apps on Kubernetes with Java Flight Recorder and Cryostat. Java Flight Recorder (JFR) is a tool for collecting diagnostic and…
Kubernetes Testing with CircleCI, Kind, and Skaffold
In this article, you will learn how to use tools like Kind or Skaffold to build integration tests on CircleCI for apps running on Kubernetes. Our main goal in this…
Slim Docker Images for Java
In this article, you will learn how to build slim Docker images for your Java apps using Alpine Linux and the jlink tool. We will leverage the latest Java 21…
Speed Up Java Startup on Kubernetes with CRaC
In this article, you will learn how to leverage CRaC to reduce Java startup time and configure it for the app running on Kubernetes. The OpenJDK Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint…
Resize CPU Limit To Speed Up Java Startup on Kubernetes
In this article, you will learn how to solve problems with the slow startup of Java apps on Kubernetes related to the CPU limit. We will use a new Kubernetes…
Logging in Spring Boot with Loki
In this article, you will learn how to collect and send the Spring Boot app logs to Grafana Loki. We will use Loki4j Logback appended for that. Loki is a…
Which JDK to Choose on Kubernetes
In this article, we will make a performance comparison between several most popular JDK implementations for the app running on Kubernetes. This post also answers some questions and concerns about…
Best Practices for Java Apps on Kubernetes
In this article, you will read about the best practices for running Java apps on Kubernetes. Most of these recommendations will also be valid for other languages. However, I'm considering…