You’re probably saying “Wait. You already wrote a blog telling me the hardest part of microservices was my data. So what is the hardest part? That? or Calling your services?” There are lots of har...
Technology moves fast! At the same time, the old becomes new. When we talk about microservices architectures, we’ve come to realize that the organization and communication structures of your teams...
Ever 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) ...
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 Mono...
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...
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...
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 N...
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 ar...
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...
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 ...
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 in...
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 bette...
Managing a cluster of Docker/Rocket containers (or anything) in a production environment is rife with distributed-systems challenges. Luckily, a compelling and very vibrant community around the Kub...
In the previous post post, I outlined why DevOps is not about efficiency, and how our old ways of looking at “complicated” problems by solving for efficiency first is actually not effective or flex...
This post is for those of you working in large companies or “enterprises” and are exploring what “DevOps” really means and why you’re struggling with it. I’ve decided to split this into a two-part ...
Spring Data saves you a lot of time by creating smart DAOs that you can basically get for free without writing any code. It basically follows the Repository Pattern from Eric Evans’ DDD book and tr...
Golang seems to be getting quite popular as its the programming language of choice for some cool new technology like Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift. Luckily enough, they’re all opensource too wh...
The following is a guest post from the folks at Baratine.io! Building microservices takes trial and error, and Baratine provides a fast, pojo-based approach to iterating your APIs. Baratine will b...
The kubectl command line client is a versatile way to interact with a Kubernetes cluster, including managing multiple clusters. I’ve not found a good way to login to multiple Kubernetes clusters (w...
I just delivered a 4-day deep-dive training course on Docker and Kubernetes to a customer in Atlanta. In true open-source spirit, I’d like to publish the source/slides and allow other people to ben...