Reactive programming offers Java developers a way to build message-driven, elastic, resilient, and responsive services… yet many Java developers don’t know where to begin. The Reactive Streams initiative provides a baseline and Project Reactor provides a great way to become immediately productive, leveraging reactive capabilities from end to end. Whether …
Speed matters in software and Java programming. Not going fast just for the sake of it, but to learn quickly and deliver insight and capabilities that move you forward. How does event processing make this possible? What role does serverless technology play?
We all want to understand what our Java application is really doing in production, but this information is normally invisible to developers. Profilers tell you what code your application is running but few developers profile and mostly on their development environments. Thankfully production profiling is now a practical reality that …
Many Java software developer are talking about containers like Docker, but be aware that it takes discipline to use container technology. It may not be as secure nor as optimal as you thought it would be. Although it is relatively easy to create a new immutable container image to run …
Helidon is a collection of Java libraries for writing microservices that run on a fast web core powered by Netty. Helidon is designed to be simple to use, with tooling and examples to get you going quickly. Since Helidon is just a collection of libraries running on a fast Netty …
Having to read someone else Java code. Even worse, thousands of lines, maybe hundreds of files of other people code. Is there a way to methodically read and understand other peoples write code, build their mental models?
