Writing summaries of conference talks is the best way to focus on the talk and listen actively. Before conference speaking became part of my job, I was already doing it. However, I don’t attend that many talks now, and I don’t take notes when I do. jPrime is a conference in Bulgaria, and after two cancellations due to Covid, they …

This post will show you the benefits of managing your distributed applications with Kubernetes in cross-cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud scenarios using Cilium and Istio with Helm and Operator for deployment. In our recent post on The New Stack, we showed you how you can leverage Kubernetes (K8s) and Apache CassandraTM to manage distributed applications at scale, with thousands of nodes across both on-premises …

Welcome to Part 4 of this five part series. In Part 1, we introduced the Wordish game with JavaFX and discussed the main UI layout. In Part 2, we discussed look and feel enhancements. We introduced specialized Label and Button controls that use pseudo-classes for advanced CSS styling. We covered incorporating third-party font libraries and customizing Scene Builder to leverage these features. …

Foojay.io, the place for friends of OpenJDK, is a friendly community of users of the OpenJDK, such as Java developers and Kotlin developers. It is a collaborative community with tips and insights being shared on a daily basis on Foojay Today. At Foojay, we maintain a list of past and upcoming Java events. It helps the worldwide OpenJDK community find events …

At the beginning of the year, I had two new Macs in a row in one month. I changed my company and had to return my previous laptop. Thus, I ordered a replacement one, but due to the current hardware shortage, the shipping took weeks: I had to rent one in the meanwhile. It means I had to install my …

Within every application, data plays a very important role. In every industry, you have data, such as customer or product information, analysis results, patient data, or account data is a vital part of the business and the applications that support your business processes. Data must be in memory to be processed by your application, but must be stored outside of …

The Java Message Service API (JMS) was developed by Sun Microsystems in the days of Java EE. The JMS API provides us with simple messaging abstractions including Message Producer, Message Consumer, etc. Messaging APIs let us place a message on a “queue” and consume messages placed into said queue. This is immensely useful for high throughput systems – instead of …

In this post, we’ll show you how to develop a CI/CD workflow using Apache Cassandra with a GitHub Actions runner. See for yourself how much time and effort you can save by deploying Cassandra cloud-natively while you test and deploy your cloud-native applications! If you have projects that depend on Apache Cassandra and you want to develop an automated continuous integration and continuous …

Sometimes as a developer, you run into a bug buried deep within the layers of your software stack. Chasing down the root cause requires not only curiosity, patience, and a healthy dose of tenacity but a willingness to try different tools and approaches. This post describes our challenges and ultimate success in tracking down a Linux kernel bug using Fallout. …