I am a total Java geek that lives in Brookfield - WI (Milwaukee), making my living as an architect/developer, spending all my time with Java, J2EE, OO, Linux, and open source. In my spare time, when I am not in front of my computers, I spend every other minute with my other loves: My wife and daughter, books, music, guitars, Formula-1 racing and SCI-FI shows like StarGate and others.
At work, I spend most of my time dealing with architectural and security issues with plenty of work and personal play-time going into discovering the latest tool, framework, etc that will allow us to work faster, smarter and deliver better results. A lot of my time is also spent fire-fighting issues and coming up with solutions to interesting problems. :)
[toread] Why the Data Lake Matters – comments By Yoni Iny, CTO of Upsolver In an article published on this site , Uli Bethke claims that the term “Data Lake” has become overloaded, ill-defined and…
[toread] The Road to Extraordinary – In his new book Peak: Secrets of the New Science of Expertise , K. Anders Ericsson proposes that almost all of us have the seeds of excellence within us—it’s…
[toread] Kafka Producer in Java – DZone Big Data – Kafka Tutorial: Writing a Kafka Producer in Java In this tutorial, we are going to create a simple Java example that creates a Kafka producer. You create a new…
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[toread] Microservices: A quick and simple definition – Paperclips lined up on table (source: PDPics via Pixabay ) Attend the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference and learn about microservices and other software…
[toread] AWS Lambda Deployment using Terraform – Recently a question got asked on Hacker News that grabbed my attention. I wanted to know how others’ experience has been. At ACL, we have multiple Lambda…
[toread] An I&O Leader’s Guide to Serverless Computing – Serverless computing is a relatively new computational model that is quickly gaining adoption in public cloud environments. Despite superficial appearances to…
[toread] Introducing CloudEvents 0.1 – Last week at CloudNativeCon & KubeCon, a specification was announced that aims to help people and applications handle event data, called CloudEvents .…
[toread] guide – Architecture A Look Back Over years of building software, distinct architectural patterns have emerged. As newer technologies get introduced, we move to keep…
[toread] guide – Introduction After a decade of cloud computing, we are at the crossroads of a paradigm shift in technology. Barring the confusion and the misconception of the…
[toread] Comparisons: Serverless vs. other tools – Serverless Architectures are enabling a wide range of use cases, but they're not right for every situation. Below, you can see how Serverless compares to other…
[toread] Why Event Gateway? – #Introduction to Event Gateway The rise of cloud architecture and hyper-ephemeral compute has led to a resurgence of interest in event-driven architectures.…
[toread] Quick Start – #Table of Contents: Intro Installing Serverless Creating a new service Deploying your first service Understanding the event model Adding a database resource…
[toread] Why Serverless? – #Introduction to Serverless Just like wireless internet has wires somewhere, serverless architectures still have servers somewhere. What ‘serverless’ really…
[toread] About Blockchain – “Blockchain” is one of the software industry’s hottest topics. As such, it’s anautomatic discussion subject between distributed systems engineers from acrossthe…
[toread] Microservices Explained – News for the Open Source Professional Login / Create Account Brought to you by News Enterprise Desktop Mobile & Embedded Open Source Linux Kernel DevOps…
[toread] Productivity – I think I amat least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me forproductivity tips. So I decided to just write them all down in one…
A list of cool Chrome DevTools Tips and Tricks – The Chrome DevTools provide an amazing set of tools to help you develop on the Web platform. Here are a few tips you might not know yet
[toread] Red Hat looks beyond Linux – The Red Hat Linux distribution is turning 25 years old this week. What started as one of the earliest Linux distributions is now the most successful open-source…
[toread] Apache Kafka – A streaming platform has three key capabilities: Publish and subscribe to streams of records, similar to a message queue or enterprise messaging system. Store…
[toread] Opening Doors with Spring Boot 2.0 – In 1988, psychologist Donald Norman popularized J.J. Gibson’s " Gibsonian Affordance ." This concept refers to “just the action possibilities that are readily…
[toread] Quick tutorial of jenkins – What’s Jenkins? Jenkins is a automation tool. With him, you can create jobs to build, test and deploy your application with any languages. You can create your…
A practical look at basic AWS Networking with Terraform – A conventional AWS Networking Tutorial out there using Terraform doesn't go around the concepts of AWS Networking. Check out how to provision an AWS VPC with multiple subnets and configure security groups using Terraform.
[toread] Java with Docker in VS Code – Java with Docker in VS Code This 15 minutes tutorial will walk you through the process of building a Docker image for running a Java application in Visual…
[toread] Build Java Web Apps with VS Code – Build Java Web Apps with VS Code This 5 minutes tutorial shows you how to create a simple Java web application with Visual Studio Code. You'll learn how to run…
[toread] The Beginner’s Guide to Spring Cloud – About InfoQ InfoQ Writers Contribute About C4Media Exclusive updates on: The Beginner’s Guide to Spring Cloud Recorded at: | by Ryan Baxter Ryan Baxter 0…
The Practical Test Pyramid – This article explores what a well-rounded test portfolio should look like to be responsive, reliable and maintainable – regardless of whether you're building a microservices architecture, mobile apps or IoT ecosystems.
[toread] Serverless Architectures – This article provides an in-depth look at serverless architecture and as a result is a long read. If you need a concise summary of what serverless is and its…
[toread] HATEOAS – a simple explanation | E4developer – HATEOAS – Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State, a name long enough to intimidate and confuse. Behind this complicated name we have a rather simple and…
[toread] Azure for AWS Professionals – 03/24/2017 15 minutes to read Contributors In this article This article helps Amazon Web Services (AWS) experts understand the basics of Microsoft Azure…
[toread] DevOps Bookmarks – Dead Man’s Snitch A cron job monitoring tool that keeps an eye on your crontab and notifies you when something doesn’t happen. linux free monitoring ruby
A beginner’s guide to Progressive Web Apps – A Progressive Web App is an app that can provide additional features based on the device support , providing offline capability, push notifications and almost native app look and speed, and local caching of resources.
[toread] Twitter is now worth more than Snap – Adding to what’s already a Very Weird 2018 , Twitter now has a bigger market cap than Snapchat maker Snap after posting a thoroughly interesting earnings beat…
[toread] The Kubernetes Effect – Key Takeaways The way we should look at Kubernetes is more like a fundamental paradigm that has implications in multiple dimensions, rather than an API to…
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