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Principal Middleware Architect @ Red Hat, open-source enthusiast, committer @ Apache, Cloud, Integration, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Fabric8, #blogger
Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Github StackoverflowEver wondered how to create, build, deploy new Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes What if you had integrated tooling in whatever IDE you used (IntelliJ, Eclipse, NetBeans, CLI, web, whatever) that can bootst...
Continuing on with my series about microservices implementations (see “Why Microservices Should Be Event Driven”, “Three things to make your microservices more resilient”, “Carving the Java EE Monolith: Prefer Ve...
I’ve just written a book that is now publicly available! The name of the book is “Microservices for Java Develooers” (O’Reilly) and is a hands-on, step-by-step guide for building microservices with some popular J...
Following my introduction blog about why microservices should be event-driven, I’d like to take another few steps and blog about it while I prep for a bunch of talks I’ve got coming up (See you at jBCNconf and R...
Some of this I cover in my book “Microservices for Java Developers” O’Reilly June 2016 (launching soon!), but I want to give a more specific treatment of it here. I get questions from folks about NetflixOSS (it’s...
I’ve been working on a series of articles showing how to build microservices using an event-driven approach (which IMHO is the only real way to build microservices :) or… any complex distributed architecture). I’...
One of the advantages of building distributed systems as microservices is the ability of the system as a whole to withstand faults and unexpected failures of components, networks, compute resources, etc. These s...
I get asked quite a bit to explain the basics of how ActiveMQ works with respect to how it stores messages (or doesn’t in some cases). Here’s the high level explanation of it. Note, the context is within JMS. If ...
Kubernetes 1.2 was just released and is quickly becooming the defacto cluster management solution for containers (Docker, Rocket, Hyper, etc). Check it out if you haven’t already – here are some interesting tidbi...
Red Hat recently released a Microservices integration toolkit for running our microservices in a Docker and Kubernetes environment on OpenShift v3. To help people understand this a little bit better, I’ve migrate...
Seems like every 5 to 10 years our industry, especially in the Enterprise Integration, or enterprise application space, we get introduced to some new methodology or architectural style that's the best since slice...
I recently put together an end-to-end demo showing step-by-step how to set up a Continuous Delivery pipeline to help automate your deployments and shorten your cycle times for getting code from development to pro...
Every once in a while, I run into an interesting problem related to connections and pooling with ActiveMQ, and today I'd like to discuss something that is not always very clear and could potentially cause you to ...
There's usually a steady drip of questions on the mailing list surrounding ActiveMQ's message-priority support as well as good questions about observed behaviors and "what's really supported"? I hope to help you ...
I recently resigned my position as senior software engineer and technical lead for a middleware services group at Wells Fargo. The job was great: work from home, great immediate manager, respected among the team ...