Marco Palladino, CTO at Mashape, on use cases for an API gateway in a microservices architecture, with load balancing and circuit breakers.

For those that have been in the technology industry for some time, there is a tendency to compare or even equate the current microservices phenomenon with the more archaic Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach. This is done implicitly in many cases…

This article is a case study of changes required in an application to make use of the new Java Platform Module System. An understanding of the module system will become an important skill for Java developers, using Java 9 and beyond.

I’ve been wondering how hard would it be to implement a basic Spring Boot app in alternative JVM languages, such as S...

Allan takes us on a ride in Machine Learning land with PHP-ML and explains how to develop a tweet sentiment analyzer with it (positive, negative, neutral)

You might have heard of RxJS, or ReactiveX, or reactive programming, or even just functional programming before. These are terms that are becoming more and

Java’s visibility rules are tricky at times. Do you know what this will print? package p; import static p.A.x; class A { static String x = "A.x"; } class B { String x = "B.x&qu…

JPA and Hibernate allow you to use DTOs and entities as projections in your JPQL and Criteria queries. When I talk about Hibernate performance in my online training or at a workshop, I get often asked, if it matters which projection you use. The answer is:…

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What is RxJava? Find out the most frequently used classes, data processing functions, and idioms for working with RxJava. Download your RxJava cheat sheet.

With webpack becoming the tool of choice for many companies across the world, its success and that of the companies that rely on it are…

Posts in this series: A primer Composition options Client composition Server composition Data composition In our previous post, we looked at why we might compose, seeing it's primarily an edge concern, where we're exposing our services to end users. Those…

In this post we'll outline new OpenAI research in which agents develop their own language. Our hypothesis is that true language understanding will come from agents that learn words in combination with how they affect the world, rather than spotting patterns…

Speaking Intelligently about "Java vs Node" Performance - Please understand what's really important when it comes to the benefits of a platform.

Rossen Stoyanchev talks about five common use cases in web application development and explores the impact of building on Servlet and Reactive web application stacks. For reactive programming, he uses RxJava and Reactor. For the web stack, he pits Spring…