Tools – Java Pub House: Recent Episodes
Tools – Java Pub House
Yeah! so we have been working with the cloud for a while, terms like K8s, EC2, Route53, BlobData, CLI has been swinged around… and is a little mysterious, and sometimes looks like a black box where you just click buttons, add things, type commands, until it finally something good happens. But if something bad happens,...
You’ll run it everywhere there’s a production system. Some kind of Metrics collector like Statsd or InfluxDB. They work like magic, reporting on the health of your application. but how does it really happen? We dive in on how these Application Performance Management tools work and how do they really “see into” your application. We...
So we had a previous episode where we show a party trick with GraalVM, where we saw how to create a Native Image. It was really the “hello world” of Native image creation, so Bob decided that’s not good enough! In this epidose we dive a little deeper on how to actually run your Restful...
So it happens. Sometimes a Java program just “dies” with the dreaded Out-of-memory Exception. Sometimes, it leaves behind a “heap dump”, or a copy of what the Java program had in memory when just before it throw the Out-of-memory exception. For some devs, a heap dump is stressful, because they think is a black box...
You heard it going around, everybody is talking about Kubernetes, and Minikube, when using Docker, and CLI. It’s like a foreign language! While we know Java very well, with the advent of Devops, we are supposed to be Deployers, and Scalability Experts. Well, once you start going down this episode you’ll become the DevOps Hero...
One of the first things that you learn to appreciate when you transition programming from hobby to a way of life is to find a good way to troubleshoot problems. Most of the time this means logging and monitoring, so for this episode we decided to interview Renaud Boutet who is DataDog’s VP of Product...
Oh my! This episode is going to be one of our favorites. There are times where the Java ecosystem delivers something incredibly interesting (InvokeDynamic, Lambdas, Streams, Kotlin), and this episode is one of those! You may have heard it mentioned around the interwebs or conferences (this new GraalVM thing)… well, it’s here to stay and...
There are technologies that sometimes are forgotten in a lonely corner, but that actually are quite sturdy. One of these is the All-Powerful Java Management Extensions (also known as JMX). With JMX you can actually expose a lot of metrics of your application and TONS of libraries use it “out of the box”. Libraries like...
Nothing like a cold chilly day to stay inside and program some more. Before you start that new project from scratch, let’s go over a pretty cool feature of Maven. Maven Archetypes! Learn how to create “project templates” for your new maven project… or better yet, use one of the predefined maven archetypes already out...