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Building a CI System with Java 9 Modules and Vert.x Microservices

Java 9 and Vert.x microservices are compatible for building applications, as showcased by this example application that implements a minimal, but working CI system.

Uday Tatiraju
on Feb 09, 2018
Java

JPA 2.2 Brings Some Highly Anticipated Changes

Released this past summer, JPA 2.2 delivered some frequently requested enhancements, especially by providing better alignment with Java 8 features, such as support for the Date and Time API and the retrieval of a query result as a Stream.

Thorben Janssen
on Jan 25, 2018
Development

InfoQ’s Top Software Developer Stories, Videos and Podcasts from 2017

Charles Humble compiles a list of this year’s most interesting and popular content on InfoQ and chats to QCon chair Wesley Reisz about 2017 and how the next 12 months are shaping up.

Charles Humble
on Dec 29, 2017
Java

Getting Started with Microservices in SpringBoot

Enterprises have learned to create software using agile processes, but we are still producing large monolithic beasts of software. If you are not already using Microservices, you are safely out of the early adopter phase of the adoption curve. This article will help you get started creating, discovering, and calling Microservices.

Victor Grazi
on Dec 28, 2017
Development

InfoQ Call for Articles

InfoQ provides software engineers with the opportunity to share experiences gained using innovator and early adopter stage techniques and technologies with the wider industry. We are always on the lookout for quality articles and we encourage practitioners and domain experts to submit feature-length (2,000 to 3,000 word) papers that are timely, educational and practical.

InfoQ.com
on Dec 01, 2017
Development

Understanding Monads. A Guide for the Perplexed

With the current explosion of functional programming, the "monad" functional structure is once again striking fear into the hearts of newcomers. In this article, Introduction to Functional Programming course instructor Dr. Barry Burd clarifies this slippery critter.

Barry Burd
on Nov 25, 2017
Java

Building Reactive Systems Using Akka’s Actor Model and Domain-Driven Design

With the explosion of mobile and data-driven applications, users are demanding real-time access to everything everywhere. System resilience and responsiveness are essential business requirements. Businesses increasingly need to trade up to more flexible, "reactive" systems. To support reactive development, actor models with domain-driven design can fulfill modern resiliency requirements.

Markus Eisele Hugh McKee
on Oct 25, 2017
Java

The Java Evolution of Eclipse Collections

With each successive version of Java, frameworks must adapt and transform in order to stay current. This article aims to describe some of the new Java 8 features in Eclipse Collections, a high performance collections framework for Java, and looks ahead at some of the new things we’ve done to prepare for Java 9. This article will walk through these new features and changes.

Kristen O'Leary
on Oct 09, 2017
Web Development

3 Easy Solutions to Optimize Images on the Fly

When pages are slow to load, images are frequently the culprit. The megabyte size of web pages is steadily growing, and images are by far the largest component. In this article, Gilad David Maayan shows how image optimization can be achieved easily and automatically with a few lines of code, using three different cloud services, dramatically improve page load times and bandwidth usage.

Gilad David Maayan
on Sep 05, 2017
Java

Cost Reduction Strategies on Java Cloud Hosting Services

On the fly, automatic vertical scaling can lower the cost of exceeding VM limits, and gives flexibility in resource allocation. In this article we will cover techniques for determining whether automatic vertical scaling can help, and how to get it configured for your project.

Ruslan Synytsky
on Aug 29, 2017
Architecture & Design

Perspective on Architectural Fitness of Microservices

In this article we peel the onion of potential architectural fitness of microservices in the context of Master Data Management, and the challenges a microservices-based architecture may face when solving problem domains that require compute-intensive tasks, such as the calculation of expected losses on a portfolio of unsecured consumer credit.

Philippe Assouline
on Aug 21, 2017
Java

Automated Journey Testing with Cascade

Starting with a brief history of software testing, we investigate Cascade, a new framework for testing “journeys”, eliminating overlapping coverage to produce fast unit tests.

Robin de Villiers
on Aug 15, 2017

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