Monthly roundup: Best of August 2021

Welcome to the new monthly roundup from Red Hat Developer. Each month, we'll offer a dealer's choice of new articles that we think you won't want to miss, along with recently published cheat sheets, quick starts, and activities in the Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift.

Quarkus for Spring developers

All of us at Red Hat Developer are proud to release our first in-house ebook, Quarkus for Spring Developers. Authors Eric Deandrea, Daniel Oh, and Charles Moulliard wrote this book as a Spring developer's ultimate resource for learning about Quarkus and Kubernetes-native Java. We hope you'll download the ebook today and let us know what you think!

More ways to learn and use Java

For Spring developers easing into Quarkus, we suggest reading Eric Deandrea's Why should I choose Quarkus over Spring for my microservices? Also, check out Aashish Patil's new four-part series introducing Java garbage collection basics.

Debugging with SystemTap

If you are already familiar with SystemTap, you won't want to miss Stan Cox's Explore new features in SystemTap 4.5.0. If you're new to SystemTap, we recommend Frank Eigler's guide to using SystemTap with statement tracing—an excellent way to open black boxes and solve mysteries in shared library code.

Everything on OpenShift

August's lineup featured a dozen articles and tutorials for OpenShift developers, starting with What's new in the Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 console. If you've ever wished for an easier way to test your applications before uploading them to Git, check this article for details. (See the end of this article for all of the OpenShift-related articles published in August.)

Reactive development with Node.js

We closed the month with what we think is a bang—Alex Alykiotis' Building reactive systems with Node.js. Start with an overview of how Node.js implements the four key characteristics of reactive systems, then walk through building one with Kafka and Node.js.

That's not all they wrote

This has been a quick look at some of the past month's highlights on Red Hat Developer, but it is by no means complete. Here's the complete lineup for August 2021:

• Why should I choose Quarkus over Spring for my microservices?
• Game telemetry with Kafka Streams and Quarkus, Part 2
• Building reactive systems with Node.js
• Automate Red Hat JBoss Web Server deployments with Ansible
• Using virtual functions with DPDK on Red Hat OpenShift
• Build your first Python application in a Linux container
• Introduction to the Node.js reference architecture, Part 5: Building good containers

• Securing malloc in glibc: Why malloc hooks had to go

• Game telemetry with Kafka Streams and Quarkus, Part 1

• Stages and levels of Java garbage collection
• Composable software catalogs on Kubernetes: An easier way to update containerized applications
• Cluster tooling updates and more in Red Hat OpenShift's Web Terminal Operator 1.3
• New features in JBoss Tools 4.19.1 and Red Hat CodeReady Studio 12.19.1 for Eclipse (2021-03)
• Explore new features in SystemTap 4.5.0
• Test container images in Red Hat OpenShift 4 with Ansible and CI/CD
• Build and deploy microservices with Kubernetes and Dapr
• How to maximize data storage for microservices and Kubernetes, Part 1: An introduction
• Simplify load balancing for API gateways using Red Hat 3scale API Management
• Debugging function parameters with Dyninst
• Porting your code to C++17 with GCC 11
• Troubleshooting application performance with Red Hat OpenShift metrics, Part 5: Test results
• Opening black boxes with statement tracing
• Managing stateful applications with Kubernetes Operators in Golang
• Managing GitOps control planes for secure GitOps practices
• How to patch modules in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• What's new in the Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 console

Here's to a new month and more good things to come in September!