JavaOne being renamed to Oracle Code One
JavaOne is renamed to Oracle Code One. More importantly, the tracks of the conference are less Java-only now. Initially I wasn’t too excited about the rename...
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2018
Building Java Docker images with Gradle and Docker multistage builds
Building vs running Docker is a great tool for both building and deploying Java applications. Building a Java application inside a container gives portable b...
2017
Java 9 modules with Vertx
Java 9 has been out for a little while now, and hopefully you already had some time to learn about the module system. The Java 9 Modularity book that I co-au...
Java 9 Modularity book now available
After working on “Java 9 Modularity” together with Sander Mak for almost two years, it has now been published by O’Reilly. Both digital and printed versions ...
Working from home
For the past five years I’ve worked remote. This post gives some insights in that experience, and some best practices to make it work best. I joined Luminis ...
Joining Netflix
2017 just got started, and it’s already an exciting year. Next week I will relocate to the bay area and join Netflix as part of the Edge Developer Experienc...
2016
Predections for 2017
The end of the year is coming near, so it’s time for some predictions! Note that these are just predictions and a bit of bashing, and very likely to be inacc...
JWT authentication with Vert.x, Keycloak and Angular 2
Almost every web app requires some kind of user management, authentication and authorization. This is often custom build. I can’t even count the number of t...
Java 9 Modularity: O'Reilly Early Access Release
Early this year my colleague Sander Mak and I started working on the first drafts of Java 9 Modularity. We’re proud to announce that the firsts bits of what ...
DevCon 16
About a year ago Luminis, the company I work for, organized it’s first developer conference. The goal of the conference was to share knowledge, like we also ...
Hosting UI projects on Kubernetes
What if you have a completely static website (yup, they still exist) or a JavaScript web frontend and want to host it on Kubernetes? This post describes two ...
Vertx on OSGi, an even better Vertx
Always eager to play with other/new/cool technology I spent some time learning about Vertx. Because Vertx is designed to be a general purpose toolbox, I want...
2015
Java 9 modularity
At JavaZone, Sander Mak and me gave a talk about modularity in Java 9. The recording of this talk can be found online and is a great start to learn about thi...
OSGi tutorial published
I wrote an extensive OSGi / Amdatu tutorial that covers all the topics that you need to build modular (web) applications. The tutorial should be a deep-dive ...
Amdatu Kubernetes API for OSGi
We are working a lot with Kubernetes lately and were looking for a Java API to integrate our dashboards with Kubernetes. There used to be a few libraries to ...
Amdatu Kubernetes API for OSGi
We are working a lot with Kubernetes lately and were looking for a Java API to integrate our dashboards with Kubernetes. There used to be a few libraries to ...
Docker network performance on cloud providers
In the past few months my work has been focussed on creating a Docker/Kubernetes based platform that is used by ourselves and our clients to run large scale ...
Amdatu Bootstrap r8
We’ve just released a new version of Amdatu Bootstrap, packed with fixes and new features.
Why you should use Amdatu for you next startup
In the past few months I have been working on a side project named Workouttraxx. Workouttraxx is an online signin system for CrossFit boxes and is being used...
Upcoming conferences
The next few weeks are going to be busy again. This week I will be speaking at InfoShare, giving a talk “10 reasons to use OSGi for your next Cloud App” and ...
Load balancing Kubernetes
Kubernetes is excellent for running (web) applications in a clustered way. This blog will go into making applications deployed on Kubernetes available on an ...
Microsoft doing all the right things with Azure
I spent this week at a conference way out of my comfort zone: Microsoft Ignite. Because we are recently working more and more with Azure, we wanted to get mo...
OSGi and Docker, a perfect team
Docker makes it easy to run applications or application components on different environments. You don’t have to worry anymore about installing environment de...