Playing with the JVM inside Docker Containers

Nowadays, the most of the Java microservices and even many Java application are packaged and deployed as Docker containers. Everyone is enjoying (I hope 😆) the Docker experience, compared to the traditional VMs. But, the Docker containerization will not come alone.. nothing is autonomous 😁 So, there are many concerns to take into consideration while containerizing Java applications, like playing with the JVM. The Docker racing was accelerated by the presence of Kubernetes in the market, which is coming with an amazing set of great features....

December 3, 2019 · 8 min

Playing with Serverless in Kubernetes with Knative

The serverless architecture became one of the most buzzy words nowadays. Almost all the cloud providers have a Serverless platforms in their catalogues: Microsoft Azure Functions Amazon Web Services Lambda Google Cloud Functions IBM Cloud Functions Oracle Functions In an other world, there are many solutions to have a Serverless Runtime into Kubernetes, which is the most popular (and the most wonderful) container orchestrator in the market. These solutions are so helpful especially if you need portability for your functions....

November 28, 2019 · 16 min

Playing with Spring Cloud in Azure Functions

In this tutorial, we will be experimenting a new use case of the great Azure Functions service 😁 one of my favorite products in Azure. In this tutorial, we will bring the powerful features of the Spring Framework to our Azure Functions Java projects. After this tutorial, creating a new Azure Functions Java based on business logic that you already have in your Spring Boot Application will be a very easy game....

November 19, 2019 · 10 min

Playing with Java in Azure Functions - New Release

In one of the previous posts, I introduced the Azure Functions Java. I felt that I need to write a dedicated tutorial to this great Azure Serverless service 😁 In this post, I will be covering many concepts in deep: Triggers and bindings Events and messaging Deployments & Consumptions Monitoring Generating the hello-world project We will scaffold a Java-based Azure Function project using Maven Archetypes, using this command: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 $ mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=com....

October 19, 2019 · 25 min

Thank you JetBrains for the complimentary subscription ! 🤩

I would like to thank JetBrains for offering me the complimentary JetBrains All Products Pack subscription as part of the JetBrains Developer Recognition Program 🤩 Say hello to my IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate

September 30, 2019 · 1 min

Playing with Azure Monitor services and Spring Boot

In enterprise application, performance is major requirement of success. Especially for applications where slowness will have a direct detrimental impact on business productivity, profits and even the brand itself, like trading platforms and e-commerces. If a trading platform loads slowly or experiences errors, it will translate into loss of business, and losses can be extremely high, and the customer might end up switching to another competitor. In this context comes the Application Performance Management (APM)....

September 23, 2019 · 10 min

Playing with Java under the shield of SonarQube

Introduction We.. developers.. we spend all our time writing code (and drinking coffee).. but we rarely care about the code quality.. until we get some pressure from a reviewer or from some quality scanner tool.. and as every field in the Java ecosystem, we have many choices when we come to choose a Quality Scanner tool: FindBugs, CheckStyle, PMD and of course the GREATEST SonarQube 😍 I fully worked with SonarQube since January 2014, during my M....

August 26, 2019 · 10 min

Big up! My book is FREE now !!

To celebrate the Groundbreaker Award and Oracle Code New York, my book “Playing with Java Microservices on Kubernetes and OpenShift” will be FREE forever ! This is a gift is for the community that voted for me and helped me to achieve this great award ! 🤩 The book is available on the Leanpub website: Thank you so much for voting for me !! 🥳

May 22, 2019 · 1 min

New book update #1

I just updated my book « Playing with Java Microservices with Kubernetes and OpenShift » 😃 The release changelog: Fixed some typos 🙈 I just finished writing the Chapter 14: Getting started with OpenShift 👌 I started writing the Chapter 15: The OpenShift style 🎶 I started working on Istio Tutorial that will be the first bonus chapter in the book ⚡️⚡️ I will be covering more and more subjects soon 😁...

January 20, 2019 · 1 min

My new book is here !!

Playing with Java Microservices on Kubernetes and OpenShift is here ! Today, November 24th 2018, I released my new book Playing with Java Microservices on Kubernetes and OpenShift!! Finally, after ten months of work, tests, POCs and many edition iterations, the newborn is here ! The book is edited and sold on the LeanPub platform 🤩 The book is sold mainly in two different offers: The Book only The Book + one hour of training about Java Microservices and Kubernetes/OpenShift I have some ideas about making some other packages, I will post about them soon !...

November 24, 2018 · 1 min