JShell provides an interactive shell for quickly prototyping, debugging, and learning Java and Java APIs. In this article, we’ll take a comprehensive look at JShell.

This Q&A, from the upcoming Chaos Conf event that is running in San Francisco in September, examines the benefits and challenges of chaos engineering. The article also provides emerging good practice.

We tend to install a lot of CLI’s, and they can be tricky to configure. The Azure Cloud Shell is a browser-based CLI with zero commitments or configuration on your part. 1

Microservices are still the most popular way to design distributed systems. But Kubernetes and the cloud native movement have redefined certain aspects of application design and development at scale. 1

Java serialization has garnered several years' worth of security exploits and 0-day attacks. We discuss the current state of the technology and what can be done to protect against serialization flaws.

How to build a demo site that runs on the WildFly application platform and connects to a MySQL database in the cloud, on Microsoft Azure.

At the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in London, a number of banks presented talks that shared their experience and learning around the principles and practice of embracing DevOps. 1

Programmable infrastructure is becoming widespread. There are very specific domain issues that make testing it tricky. This article looks at the evolution of tooling and approaches used to address it.

Hybrid and open clouds are rising as an alternative to giants like AWS. This article explains how Boston Children’s Hospital uses this technology for more rapid diagnosis and data processing.

Istio attempts to solve some particularly difficult challenges when running applications in a cloud platform. This article explores the security features of Istio: mTLS and authorization.