Author: Geertjan Wielenga Original post on Foojay: Read More Once upon a time, applications managed their own data files. Every program hand-rolled its own locking, its own crash recovery, its own consistency guarantees. Every program did it badly, in its own unique way. Then the relational database arrived and made a deal with application developers: you declare what you want, …

Author: Vincent Vauban Original post on Foojay: Read More When Event-Driven Architecture Is Not the Right Choice Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) can help teams build scalable, loosely coupled and highly responsive distributed systems. Technologies such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar and cloud messaging platforms have made this architectural style increasingly popular. However, EDA also introduces significant complexity. Asynchronous communication requires teams …

Author: Shai Almog Original post on Foojay: Read More Last week’s release post was about funding open source without the bait and switch. This week’s release tests that idea again, because two of the new features touch paid infrastructure directly: Commerce and versioned builds. What is Codename One? Codename One is an open-source framework for building native iOS, Android, desktop, …