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Introducing the KivaKit Framework

In this article, we take a brief tour of the KivaKit open source Java microservices application framework. KivaKit is a collection of mini-frameworks designed to work together. Each mini-framework is described in more detail at https://www.kivakit.org as well as on Jonathan Locke’s blog State of the Art.

Jonathan Locke
on Nov 26, 2021
Java

Why and How to Upgrade to Java 16 or 17

Java 17, the next Long Term Support (LTS) release, will be released on September 14, 2021. Unfortunately, many applications are still running on versions of Java before Java 11, the latest LTS. This article explains why you should upgrade your applications and how to do so relatively quickly. Practical examples are provided on what might break in your application and how to resolve it.

Johan Janssen
on Sep 08, 2021
Mobile

Kotlin at Ten. Interview with JetBrains’ Roman Elizarov

JetBrains unveiled Kotlin in July 2011, aiming to create a modern, general-purpose programming language running on the JVM as well as on the Web. Kotlin has quickly seen huge adoption, especially for Android app development. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with Kotlin project lead at JetBrains Roman Elizarov to learn more about the origins of the language and its future.

Roman Elizarov Sergio De Simone
on Sep 06, 2021
Java

What's New in Java 16

Java 16 was released in March of 2021 as a GA build meant to be used in production. And Java 17, the next LTS build, is scheduled to be released this September. Java 17 will be packed with a lot of improvements and language enhancements, most of which are a culmination of all the new features and changes that have been delivered since Java 11.

Sander Mak
on Aug 06, 2021
Java

Implementing Pipeline Microservicilities with Tekton

Microservicilities is a list of cross-cutting concerns that a service must implement apart from the business logic. These concerns include invocation, elasticity and resiliency, among others. This article describes how a service mesh such as Istio may be used to implement these concerns.

Alex Soto
on Jul 15, 2021
Java

Implementing Microservicilites with Istio

Microservicilities is a list of cross-cutting concerns that a service must implement apart from the business logic. These concerns include invocation, elasticity and resiliency, among others. This article describes how a service mesh such as Istio may be used to implement these concerns.

Alex Soto
on Jun 22, 2021
Java

Quick and Seamless Release Management for Java Projects with JReleaser

Andres Almiray's quest to learn Go led him to discover GoReleaser and its multiple benefits to managing Go projects. Inspired by a conversation with Max Andersen about the manner in which JBang manages releases on multiple platforms, Almiray embarked on a journey to build a flexible release tool for the Java ecosystem. InfoQ spoke to Almiray for a detailed view of JReleaser.

Olimpiu Pop Andres Almiray
on Jun 14, 2021
Java

Cameron Purdy Explains Ecstasy - a New Cloud Native Environment

In this interview, Cameron Purdy discusses Ecstasy - a new Cloud Native programming system and runtime. It is designed to be highly scalable and able to achieve very high density in Cloud environments. The project is taking shape but not at the release stage yet.

Ben Evans Cameron Purdy
on Jun 07, 2021
Java

Implementing Microservicilities with Quarkus and MicroProfile

Microservicilities is a list of cross-cutting concerns that a service must implement apart from the business logic. These concerns include invocation, elasticity and resiliency, among others. This article describes how Quarkus and MicroProfile may be used to implement these concerns.

Alex Soto
on May 13, 2021
Java

Running Axon Server in a Virtual Machine

In this series, we’ve been looking at running Axon Server locally, in Docker, and Kubernetes. What happens if we use a VM as a platform? Naturally, we need to do more work to get everything set up correctly, because instead of sharing a part of the Operating System, we now have to consider everything from the machine and upwards.

Bert Laverman
on Apr 20, 2021
Java

Article Series: Building Microservices in Java

This article series will explore the state-of-the-art in building microservice-based architectures using the Java language. Alongside popular stalwarts, such as Spring Boot and Dropwizard, newer frameworks, such as Quarkus, Micronaut and Helidon, have been gaining momentum. These frameworks emerged after MicroProfile was introduced to the Java community in 2016.

Michael Redlich
on Apr 14, 2021
Java

Testing Quarkus Web Applications: Reactive Messaging, Kafka, and Testcontainers

Quarkus is a full-stack, Kubernetes-native Java framework that supports many coding styles, including reactive programming. Writing clean unit/component/integration tests for Quarkus applications when a reactive approach is used is vitally important. Here we demonstrate testing reactive code, reactive messaging, and full integration testing.

Alex Soto
on Mar 11, 2021