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. ...

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. For example, you can have the same Serverless Runtime deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service and Google Kubernetes Engine. You can be deploying the same binaries as functions identically to both of the cloud providers. ...

In some previous articles, I was writing about the Azure Functions, which is the Microsoft Serverless solutions. After joining Microsoft, I got the chance to work on this great product for many business cases and I found it was really great 🥳 Recently, one of my Facebook friends asked me to write a blog post about what is Serverless architecture ? 🤔 what is for ? 🤔 and especially, what are the scenarios that are not suitable for Serverless ? 🤔 ...

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. ...

I was for a week in Seattle & Redmond, WA, to attend the Microsoft CSE OneWeek Event, which is a global hackathon for all CSE Team worldwide, from the 1st to the 9th of November. It’s my first visit to Seattle and Redmond. It was an amazing visit in very beautiful cities 🥳 The places I visited: Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle The Space Needle, Seattle The Fish Market, Seattle which is one of the oldest markets in the US The Microsoft Campus, Redmond 😍😍 The most wonderful place I ever visited. A full universe of Microsoft in a dedicated city 🥰 One of oldest Starbucks stores in the US, which still have the original logo 😁 Yeah ! with the naked lady 😳 The International District, Seattle The Volunteer Park, Seattle the WaMu Theater, Seattle where the OneWeek Hackathon event was held 🥰 It was really an amazing trip in a wonderful place. I feel like I felt in love with Seattle 😍 ...

In this post, I will share with you my experience starting from a disaster that occurred to my blog ☠️😢😭 until reaching the 100/100 performance score and get all Audits Validation Badges on Google Lighthouse 🏆🥇🎉🎊🎈💯/💯🥳 October 10th, I was writing a new post in my blog, in one of the previews, the site kept loading without giving any response. 😱😫😰😓😳🥵 My blog is based on the Wordpress CMS and hosted in an Ubuntu VPS by OVH since August 28th, 2015. ...

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.microsoft.azure \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=azure-functions-archetype \ -DappName=hello-world-app-example \ -DappRegion=FranceCentral \ -DresourceGroup=helloworld-rg \ -DgroupId=com.helloworld.group \ -DartifactId=helloworld-functions \ -Dpackage=com.helloworld \ -DinteractiveMode=false The generated project will look like: ...

I was for a week in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to attend the Microsoft OpenHack about the Migrating Workloads to Azure from the 14th to the 18th of October. It’s not my first visit to Amsterdam, and like every time, it was an amazing visit 🥳 Like every trip, here is a small Flickr album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nebrass78/albums/72157711449636051

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

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). APM is the monitoring and management of performance and availability of applications. APM strives to detect and diagnose complex application performance problems to maintain an expected level of service. ...