Have you ever tried to run any message broker on Kubernetes? KubeMQ is a relatively new solution and is not as popular as competitive tools like RabbitMQ, Kafka, or ActiveMQ.…
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Java, Spring, Kotlin, microservices, Kubernetes, containers
Tag : Java
Spring Boot Best Practices for Microservices
In this article I’m going to propose my list of “golden rules” for building Spring Boot applications, which are a part of a microservices-based system. I’m basing on my experience…
Overview of Java Stream API Extensions
Stream API, which has been introduced in Java 8, is probably still the most important new feature that has been included in Java during the last several years. I think…
Performance Comparison Between Spring Boot and Micronaut
Today we will compare two frameworks used for building microservices on the JVM: Spring Boot vs Micronaut. First of them, Spring Boot is currently the most popular and opinionated framework…
5 Things You Will Like in Kotlin as a Java Developer
In this article I’m going to compare a few selected features: Kotlin vs Java. Kotlin language is gaining more and more popularity recently. It is widely used no longer just…
Quick guide to deploying Java apps on OpenShift
In this article, I'm going to show you how to deploy your Java applications on OpenShift (Minishift), and connect them with other services running there. We will also learn how…
Microservices traffic management using Istio on Kubernetes
I have already described a simple example of route configuration between two microservices deployed on Kubernetes in one of my previous articles: Service Mesh with Istio on Kubernetes in 5…
Partitioning with Apache Kafka and Vertx
In this article, you will learn how to implement partitioning with Apache Kafka and Vertx toolkit. Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform. It also may act as a messaging…
Performance Testing with Gatling
How many of you have ever created automated performance tests before running an application on production? Usually, developers attach importance to the functional testing and try to provide at least…
Spring Cloud Apps Memory Management
Today's topic is about Spring Cloud memory usage as well as about microservices architecture. The inspiration to write this post was the situation when our available memory on test environment…
New Book Published
My latest book Hands-On Java with Kubernetes is now available on Leanpub!
