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Several Red Hat engineers attended the JTC1/SC22/WG21 C++ Standards Committee meetings in July 2017. This post focuses on the sessions of SG1, the study group on parallelism and concurrency. We discussed several synchronization-related proposals, improvements for futures, and, of course, executors. Also, I proposed a few steps that the SG1 community could take to get more efficient in how it conducts its work, which are all inspired by how successful open source projects work. Most of the proposals we discussed...

Red Hat JBoss Fuse provides an open source, lightweight, modular platform that enables you to connect a variety of services and systems across your application environment. And, included with Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, is the Fuse Tooling that helps you take advantage of that platform. The route editor initially focused on the parts of the Camel configuration inside the route or Camel context element, but in version 8.0.0, we began adding support for global elements such as data formats...

OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) offers many different types of persistent storage. Persistent storage ensures that data should be insistent between builds and container migrations. When choosing a persistent storage backend to ensure that the backend supports the scaling, speed, dynamic provisioning, RWX/RWO support and redundancy that the project requires. Container-Ready Storage (CRS), or native Gluster for OCP, is defined by the concept of persistent volumes, which are OCP created objects that allow storage to be defined and then used by...

I’m extremely pleased to announce the latest releases of our Red Hat developer tools, available on multiple platforms. The general theme of this release is expanded usability, product integration, expanded support for Middleware products in Development Suite, plus the brand new addition of Kompose and the DevTools channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This collection of tools has been assembled into an easy-to-use installer to help software developers quickly and easily put together a development environment to create containerized enterprise...

JBoss Tools 4.5 and Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 11.0 for Eclipse Oxygen are here waiting for you. Check it out! Installation JBoss Developer Studio comes with everything pre-bundled in its installer. Simply download it from our Red Hat Developers and run it like this: java -jar jboss-devstudio-.jar JBoss Tools or Bring-Your-Own-Eclipse (BYOE) JBoss Developer Studio requires a bit more: This release requires at least Eclipse 4.7 (Oxygen) but we recommend using the latest Eclipse 4.7 Oxygen JEE Bundle since...

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(Part 3)The GNU Toolchain is a collection of programming tools produced by the GNU Project. The tools are often packaged together due to their common use for developing software applications, operating systems, and low-level software for embedded systems.

Note: This is an updated version of a post I wrote for my private blog years ago. While working on the REST API of RHQ a long time ago, I had started writing some integration tests against it. Doing this via pure HTTP calls is very tedious and brittle. So, I was looking for a testing framework to help me and found one that I used for some time. I tried to enhance it a bit to better suit my...

EDI, or Electronic Data Interchange, has always been a challenging domain to support for organizations. As EDI standards cover a large range of industries, from supply chain to medical to financial services (FSI), the standards rapidly evolve and change over time, thus requiring constant maintenance. The sheer cost of maintaining standards is high, not only for organizations but also for EDI software vendors who struggle to keep up. The expensive fees paid to standards organizations and rapidly evolving releases are...

Android is one of the most used mobile operating systems in the market with an estimated market share of approximately 84.82%. Millions of apps loom in the Android OS, for various tasks and it's a shame that only a small percentage of the apps have a well-developed user interface (UI), which is flexible and adaptable to various mobile sizes. For an average user, they want their apps to look good and do well. However, if you are an app developer...

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In the previous part of this blog, I talked about the most important steps to get your project to compile with the latest Framework version. The migration has been done through the first three steps mentioned here, and in this post, I will go over the least complicated steps of migration. Steps 4 and 5 cover the modernization of your project with the latest Framework 8 features. If you are in a hurry, you can do this later on as...

It’s been over a month since I spoke at the Red Hat Summit in Boston and now that the dust has settled, I thought you might be interested in reading a brief summary of my Lightning Talk on Five OpenShift Development Environments in Five Minutes. In the presentation, I spoke about five different ways that you can create an OpenShift development environment within minutes. This included oc cluster up, Vagrant All in One Box, Minishift, a Fabric8 technology, and the...

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Surely, you too have been frustrated, while single-stepping optimized programs in symbolic debuggers, by the Brownian motion in the source code, and by never being sure, when you reach a certain source line (if you can reach it at all), whether or not earlier lines have taken effect. Our frustration is about to be significantly alleviated, thanks to two new pieces of technology about to be contributed to the GNU toolchain. Statement Frontier Notes are stable markers of source locations...

Andy presented this lightning talk at Red Hat Summit 2017.

One question, which is often asked of me is “How do I quickly get new features into production?” This is the whole idea of microservices, to quickly move features into production. At this year’s Red Hat Summit, I spoke to this during my OpenShift Application Runtimes session, introducing it as an upcoming product. I spoke on integrating language runtimes into OpenShift and Kubernetes so that as you write Microservices you can leverage a lot of the features that are available...

The March/April C++ meeting was back in Kona, Hawaii again, only a year and a half after the last Kona meeting. As usual, Red Hat sent three of us to the meeting: Jonathan Wakely, Torvald Riegel, and me. The headline from the meeting was voting to submit C++17 for approval by the national bodies. There wasn't really any significant resistance. There was one new feature added in the final draft, namely std::byte, which was expected to go in at the...

Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK) provides a Container Development Environment (CDE) that allows users to build a virtualized environment for OpenShift. This environment is similar to the user’s production environment and does not need other hardware or a physical cluster. CDK is designed to work on a single user’s desktop computer. The following instructions are to install and use CDK with Fedora 25, but can also be used for earlier versions of Fedora. A significant difference between CDK version...

Several Red Hat engineers attended the JTC1/SC22/WG21 C++ Standards Committee meetings in March 2017. This post focuses on the sessions of SG1, the study group on parallelism and concurrency. The major topics of work of the week were (1) further polishing of the parallel algorithms in the C++17 draft, (2) making progress on the executors proposal (which provides mechanisms to control how parallel work is executed, for example on which resources), and (3) continuing work on proposals targeting the Concurrency...

In a previous blog post, we explained how to deploy an existing JBoss BRMS/Drools rules project onto an OpenShift DecisionServer. We created a decision/business-rules microservice on OpenShift Container Platform that was implemented by a BRMS application. The polyglot nature of a microservice architecture allowed us to use the best implementation (a rules engine) for this given functionality (business rules execution) in our architecture. The project we used was an existing rules project that was available on GitHub. We did however...

In this article, I want to provide some background details about our recently developed demonstration video - “ Running Game of Life across multiple architectures with Red Hat Enterprise Linux “. This video shows the Game of Life running in a heterogeneous environment using three 64-bit hardware architectures: aarch64 (ARM v8-A), ppc64le (IBM Power little endian) and x86_64 (Intel Xeon). If you are not familiar with the rules of this cellular automaton, they are worth checking out via the reference...

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Do you want to speed up your debugging process? This blog post is designed to help you do just that by empowering you with the knowledge of how to debug RHMAP Cloud Apps and MBaaS services locally using VS Code. For an introduction to running RHMAP client apps locally, see How to Setup your Apps to Target Locally on Device. Why VS Code? Interactive Debugger allows you to step through source code, inspect variables, view call stacks, and execute commands...

So, you’ve been told you need to build a Redis Server Cluster. First, if you don’t know what Redis is you are probably thinking, “What is this weird named thing and what do I need to do”. This guide will walk you through both in a way that will hopefully be easy to follow and be easy to repeat in the future. While you can have more than three servers in a Redis cluster for the sake of simplicity, we...

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Unless you’ve been on a complete media blackout for the last year or so (entirely understandable) you’ve likely heard a lot about Serverless (or FaaS - Function as a Service). Serverless is a major shift in the way developers build and deliver software systems - it greatly simplifies development by insulating the developer from infrastructure concerns and pushes the envelope on cost and efficiency of execution. Various groups at Red Hat have been investigating Serverless for some time now -...

Getting Started With A-MQ 6.1: This introduction has been setup to get you started as quickly as possible with JBoss A-MQ. We have put together a three part video tour of the product, an example quick setup of the product and the installation of an existing project that is then deployed to JBoss A-MQ. The product is installed and configured right before your very eyes in no time at all with a fully automated project setup script. The server setup is shown using the latest JBoss Developer Studio and you are ready to get going.

Andrew Lee Rubinger, Principle Software Engineer, Red Hat, Lalatendu Mohanty, Sr. Software Engineer, Red Hat share inights in the breakout session from Red Hat Summit 2017. Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK) provides a ready-to-use development environment for developing microservices on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. In this session, we will design a small microservices application using Angular2 served through Eclipse Vert.x for front-end environments and REST over HTTP and Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) via WildFly Swarm for back-end environments. We’ll also bootstrap the environment using CDK. This live-coding experience will walk you through setting up a new containerized environment from scratch and using it to develop a functional application in 50 minutes. Learn more: https://www.redhat.com/en/summit/2017/agenda/sessions

In this session, Mark Wagner reviews enhancements in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and show attendees how to take advantage of them in their environments. Mark uses test results from Red Hat's performance lab to highlight the various differences, advantages, and tradeoffs for many technologies, including Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization technology, 10Gbit Ethernet, Infiniband, FCoE, Packet Flow Control, and RDMA. Mark also presents guidelines and tools for planning and tuning network configurations for low latency and high throughput. He covers the differences between tuning for baremetal, a KVM guest, a Red Hat Storage file system, and NFS. He also touches upon some tricks developers can use when writing network-based applications.

Developer tools

Red Hat at the ISO C++ Standards Meeting (July 2017): Parallelism and Concurrency

Getting Started with Global Beans in Fuse Tooling 10.0.0

Gluster for OpenShift - Part 1: Container-Ready Storage

Red Hat Releases New Development Tools

Announcing Red Hat Developer Studio 11.0.0.GA and JBoss Tools 4.5.0.Final for Eclipse Oxygen

Summer 2017 GNU Toolchain Update Part 3

Testing REST APIs with REST Assured

EDI Transformations with Fuse Integration Services (FIS)

Testing your Android App's UI with Espresso

Upgrading to Vaadin Framework 8 (Part 2 of 2)

Five OpenShift Development Environments in Five Minutes

Statement Frontier Notes and Location Views

Reproducible Development to Live Apps w/ Java and Red Hat CDK, by Andy Rubinger

OpenShift Application Runtimes

Red Hat at the ISO C++ Standards Meeting (April 2017, Kona): Core Language

Running CDK 3.0 on Fedora 25

Red Hat at the ISO C++ Standards Meeting (March 2017): Parallelism and Concurrency

Your first Business Rules application on OpenShift: from Zero to Hero in 30 minutes

Running HPC workloads across multiple architectures with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Debugging RHMAP Apps locally with Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

How To Setup A Redis Server Cluster on Red Hat

Red Hat and Apache OpenWhisk

Getting Started With A-MQ 6.1

Reproducible development to live applications with Java and Red Hat CDK

2012 Red Hat Summit: Achieving top network performance

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