Low on time and want to know what an ‘application server’ really is? Here we offer our explanation. This video covers the difference between application servers and web servers, what an application server can do to make your life as a developer easier, and more, all in less time than your average pop song! This is a high-level view that …

Time flies when having fun… So here we are again, another month has passed and this is a summary of the Links Of The Week that were published on jfx-central.com during November. JavaFX Core We already shared here that Oracle will also be distributing JavaFX builds, and you can see the announcement they did at JavaOne here. Takaaki Sugiyama shared …

Apache Kafka is a common choice for inter-service communication. Kafka facilitates the parallel processing of messages and is a good choice for log aggregation. Kafka claims to be low latency, high throughput. However, is Kafka fast enough for many microservices applications in the cloud? When I wrote Open Source Chronicle Queue, my aim was to develop a messaging framework with …