Articles, Home

Building Reactive Microservices in Java: Asynchronous and Event-Based Application Design

Eclipse Vert.x is a toolkit that helps developers build reactive applications to run within the Java Virtual Machine. Whether you want to get rid of your monolithic enterprise applications, or avoid creating new ones, Eclipse Vert.x is worth investigating. In the process of working through this book, you will learn how to use reactive design to create distributed, reactive microservices within this framework.

Articles, Home

New Relic – the State of Java Report

While self-reported data suggests that running the latest and greatest JVM in production is the way forward, the recent report by New Relic (which monitors real JVMs in production) suggests that the Java landscape is dominated by Java 8, and to a lesser extent, Java 11, with non-LTS releases barely a blip on their radar. Read on to find out what their report says customers are actually using.