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Kubernetes Application Server
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Kubernetes: Your Next Application Server

Burr Sutter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6gM4wFEmwA Watch Burr Sutter in this week's DevNation change how you think about application servers in today's world of containers. Get the slides: bit.ly/kubeappserver In the Java ecosystem, we have historically been enamored with the concept of the “application server,” the runtime engine that not only gave us portable APIs such as JMS, JAX-RS, JSF, and EJB but also gave us critical runtime infrastructure for things such as farm deployments, configuration, load-balancing, failover, distributed management, and monitoring. This session demonstrates...

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Quickly try Red Hat Process Automation Manager in your cloud

Eric D. Schabell

This article describes an easy installation demo that shows how to quickly install Red Hat Process Automation Manager so you have a standard configuration to start your first business rules project.

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Quickly try Red Hat Decision Manager in your Cloud

Eric D. Schabell

Similar to my previous quick install/demo for JBoss BRMS, this article shows how to quickly run Red Hat Decision Manager in your own OpenShift cloud environment.

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Upcoming Book: Vert.x in Action (MEAP)

Julien Ponge

Julien Ponge's upcoming book, Vert.x in Action: Asynchronous and Reactive Applications in Java, is now available from the Manning early-access program (MEAP). Read the article for the exclusive Red Hat Developer discount code.

Lift and Shift Application Modernization
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Modernize your application deployment with Lift and Shift

Doug Tidwell

By redeploying your application you can add modern application features like continuous integration and deployment without rewriting. Lift and shift your legacy application onto a cloud/container platform.

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Announcing: Thorntail 2.2 General Availability

James Falkner

Thorntail is the new name for WildFly Swarm, and bundles everything you need to develop and run Thorntail and MicroProfile applications by packaging server runtime libraries with your application code and running it with java -jar.

MicroProfile
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Deploying MicroProfile apps on Microsoft Azure using the Azure Open Service Broker

James Falkner

This post shows how easy it is to link Java MicroProfile apps to Microsoft Azure services through the Open Service Broker for Azure. To do that, it describes the steps for reproducing a demo application, based on the popular game Minesweeper, that was presented at the recently concluded Microsoft Ignite 2018 conference in Orlando.

CloudEvent Flow
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EventFlow: Event-driven microservices on OpenShift (Part 1)

Hugo Hiden +2

This post is the first in a series that describes a lightweight cloud-native distributed microservices framework called EventFlow that targets the Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms and models event-processing applications as a connected flow or stream of components. EventFlow can be used to develop event-processing applications that can process CloudEvents, which are an effort to standardise upon a data format for exchanging information regarding events generated by cloud platforms.

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Use Groovy to customize the Maven build process

Andrea Tarocchi

Maven plugins are used to enhance and customize the Maven build process, but it's common to need to tweak a build just a bit, which makes writing a whole plugin feel like overkill. This article presents a way to use the GMaven Plus plugin to tap into a Maven build and interact with it without the need to write an entire Maven plugin.

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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.

Red Hat Learning Subscription
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Red Hat Application Development I: Programming Java EE (JB183) course now available

Zachary Gutterman

A new video classroom training course, Red Hat Application Development I: Programming Java EE (JB183), is now available. This course covers modern enterprise Java development using easy-to-follow lectures and demonstrations, and it is the preparatory course for the Red Hat Certified Enterprise Application Developer Exam.

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Asynchronous communication between microservices using AMQP and Vert.x

Faisal Masood

This article shows how to use Apache QPid Proton (or Red Hat AMQ Interconnect) as a message router, the Vert.x AMQP bridge, and the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) for asynchronous request-reply communication between two microservices. Since AMQP is a wire-level protocol, services written in other stacks (like .NET) can also use the same communication channel.

Auto-generating news and publishing it to WordPress
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Auto-generating news and publishing it to WordPress with Apache Camel

Ricardo Zanini

This article contains a demo of how to use the new Camel WordPress component to auto-generate news posts and publish them to a WordPress blog. A soccer statistics API is used as the source and converted into text via a natural language generation (NLG) library.