A microservices application is one that is composed of a series of discrete services, which communicate with one another via an API. Microservices apps are the opposite of monolithic applications. The ...

Enterprise software developers toiling away at the development of traditional server-side applications that get packaged in WAR files and deployed as EARs need not fret about being left behind by the ...

In many organizations, microservices have become the default method of application building and deployment, leveraging containers and Kubernetes. The resulting architecture has been a flexible network ...

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 ...

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In March 2014, Martin Fowler and James Lewis from ThoughtWorks published an article on microservices. Since then, the concept has gained prominence among web-scale startups and enterprises. A ...

Oracle has released Helidon 2.0, an upgrade to its Java libraries designed to simplify microservices development. The upgrade brings GraalVM Native Image startup and memory consumption benefits to ...

Microsoft's open source distributed application runtime, Dapr, is now production ready in version 1.0, easing microservices development on-premises, on the edge or in the cloud. Dapr is intended to ...