Screenshot from the Oracle Website ( source ) So. Oracle want's to make money from Java. And The Register published a very polarising piece with a super catchy title about it. According to their sources, "Oracle is massively ramping up audits of…
Continue ReadingLightbend recently ran a survey with more than 2000 JVM developers and the results just got published. The survey was launched to discover: correlations between development trends and IT infrastructure trends, how organizations at the forefront of digital …

What are the benefits of the Reactive Manifesto and the Microservices approach, especially for those who want to fundamentally modernize their business? I will discuss this at the free event „ Reactive Microservices Roadshow “, on 28th September in Berlin. Th…


Lightbender at JavaOne 2016
It's only short 16 days until the Java community is starting to travel to San Francisco again. The annual family gathering at JavaOne is the place to be and it's time to get a little excited about attending once again. This year, Lightbend is a bron…
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Remote JMS with WildFly Swarm
I'm blogging about WildFly swarm again? Short version is: I needed a test for remote JMS access and refused to setup something complex like a complete application server. The idea was to have a simple WildFly Swarm application which has a queue and a to…

There's been a lot of buzz from me lately around microservices and containers. And all the efforts were directed towards today's public announcement by Lightbend and Mesosphere . If you are interested in learning more about how traditional architectur…


CQRS with Java and Lagom
I've had the pleasure to talk at the Chicago Java User Group and talk about how Lagom implements CQRS, the Command Query Responsibility Segregation pattern. Thankfully, there is a recording and I also published the slides on slideshare . Abstract: As…
Continue ReadingNo, this isn't a customer success story. And this isn't the typical post about some awesome stuff that you can do with technology. This time it is actually about knowledge in a different kind. Lightbend would love to know how you use the Cloud, Contai…

On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 I had the pleasure to join Arun Gupta (Couchbase), Mano Marks (Docker) and Shane Johnson (Couchbase) for a great webinar with ADTMag. You can watch the complete replay for free after registration . This blog highlights some of the m…

I am very happy to announce, that I finished another O'Reilly Mini-Book a couple of weeks ago. After the success of the very first edition which introduced you to the overall problem space of microservices and the amazing book by Jonas Bonér about the ar…

The O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York happens this week. And I had the pleasure to give a tutorial together with Josh Long about how to integrate Java EE and Spring. We've been joking about this one since a while. The super stup…

I've been heads-down in writing my next O'Reilly report and didn't had enough time to blog in a while. Time to catch up here and give you a real quick start into the new microservices framework named Lagom. It is different to what you might know f…

Working with and talking about microservices has been my focus for a while already. And since I started working at Lightbend I already had the pleasure to work with some amazing people. One of them is Jonas Bonér and it has been a real pleasure helping with…

Haven't done a review in a while. It's time to dive a little deeper into the technical portfolio of Lightbend. Today it is Akka. A book with this title is the ideal start with a new technology in general. And for all my Java readers: Rest assured, tha…
Continue ReadingThe cake is backed. We're proud to announce that the new Apache licensed microservice framework Lagom is available on GitHub ! While other frameworks focus on packaging and instance startup, Lagom redefines the way that Java developers build microservic…

Almost two years in Red Hat JBoss Middleware have been a tremendous journey for me. Getting to know so many amazing and gifted people to work with in all kinds of Java EE and integration products and projects really made me realize there is far more talent …
Continue ReadingI've been using OpenShift since a while now. For many reasons. First of all, I don't want to build my own Docker and Kubernetes environment on Windows and second of all, because I like the simple installation. After the Christmas holidays I decided to…

The series continues. After the initial overview and Arjan's post about the most important backend features , I am now very happy to have Ed Burns ( @edburns ) finish the series with his favorite Java EE 7 frontend features. Thanks to Markus Eisele f…
Continue ReadingEverybody is talking microservices these days and Red Hat is doing some very cool developer events around the world. The latest one happened at the beginning of November last year. The amazing speaker lineup starts with special guest speaker, Tim Hockin from …
