In an ideal world, all your apps have good test coverage, get deployed continuously via pipelines, scale gracefully, and laugh in the face of component failure. That is decidedly not the world we live in. Yes, cloud-native apps are the… Read More ›
My sister-in-law is a personal trainer. Whenever she visits, I instinctively hide any delicious Kit Kats I have lying around. But she inspires me, and I admire how she helps people change their lifestyle for the better. That said, it’s… Read More ›
What a fun year. Lots of things to be grateful for. Took on some more responsibility at Pivotal, helped put on a couple conferences, recorded a couple dozen podcast episodes, wrote news/articles/eMags for InfoQ.com, delivered a couple Pluralsight courses (DevOps, and Java related), received my… Read More ›
Next week is SpringOne Platform (S1P). This annual conference is where developers from around the world learn about about Spring, Cloud Foundry, and modern architecture. It’s got a great mix of tech talks, product demos, and transformational case studies. Hear from software engineers and… Read More ›
Do you build Java apps? If so, there’s a good chance you’re using Spring Boot. Web apps, event-driven apps, data processing apps, you name it, Spring Boot has libraries that help. It’s pretty great. I’m biased; I work for the company that… Read More ›
Apps fail. Hardware fails. Networks fail. None of this should surprise you. As we build more distributed systems, these failures create unpredictability. Remote calls between components might experience latency, faults, unresponsiveness, or worse. How do you keep a failure in… Read More ›
You’ve got a lot of options when connecting microservices together. You could use service discovery and make direct calls. Or you might use a shared database to transfer work. But message brokers continue to be a popular choice. These range… Read More ›
