As the microservices approach to architecture crops up in diverse applications small and large, Java-specific developers must grapple with the benefits and drawbacks -- as well as the shifting trends ...

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In a microservices architecture, one of the most important parts of a service is the module in charge of communicating with other services. You often need to test end-to-end how a service communicates ...

The MicroProfile Working Group, the open forum that optimizes Enterprise Java for a microservice architecture, just released their latest iteration, MicroProfile 7.1. After ten months of development, ...

Solid and well-understood makes for better development environments than fashionable. Java is not fashionable, but it’s still right for business. When I mention Java to young developers, including my ...

The microservices approach to building applications might seem strange at first. But it has proven itself to be a better alternative to the old monolithic beasts If you’ve never used a microservices ...