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Foojay Podcast #38: Java in the Cloud

Java was born in 1995, when the internet as we know it today didn’t exist yet. Cloud servers, Docker, Kubernetes, distributed systems, scaling up and down… these things are now part of our daily job, but Java wasn’t originally designed for it. In this episode, we want to learn if the recent evolutions in OpenJDK, and ongoing related projects, will …

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Five Apache Projects You Probably Haven’t Heard Of (Yet)

In early 2021, I started to work on the Apache APISIX project. I have to admit that at the time I had never heard about it before. As a result, in this article, I’d like to introduce some Apache projects that are less well-known than HTTPD or Kafka. Apache APISIX APISIX is an API Gateway. It builds upon OpenResty, a …

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Book Review: Modern Frontends with htmx

People who follow me probably know I have a big love for user interface development with JavaFX (for desktop), and Vaadin (for browser). But as always, there are different solutions for every challenge, and building a web user interface with Java can be done with other frameworks. htmx seems to be one of those hot new rising stars, and I …

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