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...

Everyone wants to talk about microservices. Everyone even wants to do them, although they’re not really sure how – Martin Fowler’s initial write up left more questions than answers. Some of us have...

HL7 over MLLP is a very common transport mechanisms for systems that can speak the HL7 protocol format. JBoss Fuse is a very powerful microservices-style integration platform and has a proven track...

So you think you’re going to do microservices? Did you also try to adopt SOA? And agile? And scrum? Update: links to the in-person preso and the webinar I did for these talks are here: In perso...

A lot of teams I talk to recently are very interested in “DevOps” (whatever that means… seems to mean different things to different people?) and when we sit down and talk about what that really mea...

We hear the benefits of microservices architectures loud and clear; we hear the constant drum beat of how/why/by all means/etc you should be doing microservices; we know companies such as Amazon, N...

I’m looking forward to speaking at DevNation 2015 and Red Hat Summit 2015 next week in Boston, as well as meeting some of you in person! If you’ll be going and wish to meet up, tweet me @christianp...

Do you deploy and undeploy your JVM-based applications (regardless of JVM container/no-container) in production? ie, when you have new versions of an app or service, do you mutate the running JVM b...

JBoss Fuse is a powerful distributed integration platform with built in features for centralized configuration management, service discovery, versioning, API gateway, load balancing, failover, etc ...

JBoss Fuse is a powerful distributed integration platform with built in features for centralized configuration management, service discovery, versioning, API gateway, load balancing, failover, etc ...

Technology is the foundation of differentiation whether you’re a large enterprise or the small startup. If businesses fail to embrace that fact, they run the risk of losing marketshare and ultimate...

As developers, we all love shiny new things. New technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), new languages (Golang, NodeJS), new hyped conversation starters (Microservices, DevOps, Cloud). And everyone seem...

Next week I’ll be giving a talk at the DevNexus conference in Atlanta. AFAIK the event is sold out, so for those going, look forward to meeting you! The industry is buzzing with all kinds of hyp...

Oddly enough, while I’m sleeping or in some zombie state while attempting to sleep, I often feel like the ideas I have while in that state are the best thing ever and could possibly solve all the w...

Apache ActiveMQ is a very popular open-source messaging broker brought to you by the same people who created (and work on) Apache Karaf, Apache Camel, Apache ServiceMix, and many others. It has a v...

Apache Camel is a popular, mature, open-source integration library. It implements the Enterprise Integration Patterns which is a set of patterns that often come up when integrating distributed syst...