Insights
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Java Licensing: Is the Free Lunch over?
Tuesday, February 05, 2019 in Insights
The license change to Java SE 8, as well as the new license for Java SE 9 and onwards lead to confusion within the Java community. Looking for information on the web, one finds results in the spectrum from “Is Java in Jepoardy?" to …
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Getting Started with AWS Lambda
Monday, February 04, 2019 in Insights
Lambda is AWS’ realization of a serverless architecture. Instead of deploying instances and scaling them manually, developers deploy only their code and AWS executes the code. Different triggers for code executions can be defined, e.g. when a …
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Advanced OpenShift command line interface
Wednesday, January 09, 2019 in Insights
The OpenShift command line interface is a very powerful tool which is quite useful for beginners and advanced user of OpenShift alike. Some of its features are not well documented or not documented at all. In this article I would like to shed some …
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Introduction to TimescaleDB
Wednesday, October 31, 2018 in Insights
Our world is full of various processes: tracking of goods delivery, currencies trading, monitoring of server resources, hotel bookings, selling goods or services etc. Since these processes occur over time, they can be described by time series data. …
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OMD 2.80 Labs Edition Released
Monday, October 29, 2018 in Insights
OMD Labs Edition 2.80 has been released today. The OMD Labs Edition is based on the standard OMD but adds some more useful addons like Grafana and Prometheus or additional cores like Icinga 2 and Naemon. This release updates many of the shiped …
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JavaZone Video: Prometheus Monitoring without Modifying Source Code Using Java Agents and Byte Buddy
Friday, September 14, 2018 in Insights
The Prometheus monitoring tool follows a white-box monitoring approach: Applications actively provide metrics about their internal state, and the Prometheus server pulls these metrics from the applications using HTTP. If you can modify the …
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Eclipse MicroProfile - Microservices with Java EE
Monday, September 10, 2018 in Insights
As the number of microservice based architectures continues to grow, development teams are facing new challenges when choosing the adequate tools for the job. At the technical level, the decisions need to be made considering the features of both: …
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Developers vs. OpenShift CI/CD #2: System tests and their data
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 in Insights
Let’s move on with this little series about how OpenShift environments may fall short in terms of developer experience. Today we focus on the role that system tests have in an OpenShift infrastructure and what might possibly go wrong here …
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Sakuli v1.2.0 released!
Wednesday, July 04, 2018 in Insights
It’s about time for a new Sakuli release! Our latest release v1.2.0 is the first version to include a beta of Sakuli-UI, a web UI to help you develop and manage your tests. The new release also brings a bunch of enhancements and bug-fixes, a …
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Developers vs. OpenShift CI/CD #1: Running applications locally
Monday, June 25, 2018 in Insights
In some OpenShift environments for building and delivering software we notice that the needs of developers, arguably a group of people who will have a great deal of contact with the platform, are not met as thoroughly as would have been possible. …