Ken Finnigan

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Ken is a Senior Principal Software Engineer for Red Hat and has been a consultant and software engineer for over 20 years with enterprises throughout the world. Ken has a history of delivering budgets on time and budget across many industries, delivering key customer value. Ken has currently focused on all things observability, while also looking to innovate with Kubernetes Native development. Ken is part of the team developing Quarkus to be Supersonic Subatomic Java. Ken has previously served as the project lead for SmallRye, Thorntail, and LiveOak, with over 10 years of experience contributing to open source. Ken is the author of several books, including “Kubernetes Native Microservices with Quarkus, and MicroProfile” and “Enterprise Java Microservices”.

Ken Finnigan's contributions

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Why Kubernetes native instead of cloud native?

Ken Finnigan

Learn how Kubernetes-native development with Quarkus offers seamless portability between cloud providers: The optimal choice for hybrid cloud environments.

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Are App Servers Dead in the Age of Kubernetes? (Part 2)

Ken Finnigan

Given Kubernetes, docker containers and service mesh, are we seeing the start of an imminent decline in the use of application servers? This article explores the use case for application servers and examines why they will continue to evolve.

Data Streaming with WildFly Swarm and Apache Kafka
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Data Streaming with WildFly Swarm and Apache Kafka

Ken Finnigan

At the beginning of October, I attended JavaOne in San Francisco to present on WildFly Swarm and Apache Kafka. For those of you that weren't able to attend the session, or for those that did and saw first hand the issues with the demo, I will be covering all the details of how the demo should work! The presentation material that was presented at JavaOne can be found here, and all the code for the demos is in GitHub. MiniShift...