Nicolas Frankel

Technologist focusing on cloud-native technologies, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and system observability. His focus revolves around creating technical content, delivering talks, and engaging with developer communities to promote the adoption of modern software practices. With a strong background in software, he has worked extensively with the JVM, applying his expertise across various industries. In addition to his technical work, he is the author of several books and regularly shares insights through his blog and open-source contributions.

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Nicolas Frankel Aug 22, 2023 2,584 views

Introduction to the Tower Library

In Rust, Tower is designed around Functional Programming and two main abstractions, Service and Layer. Learn more here!

Tutorials

Nicolas Frankel Aug 15, 2023 8,416 views

My Final Take on Gradle (vs. Maven)

Software development is a fast-changing field, and much of our understanding is based on personal experience. So here's mine.

Gradle Maven

Nicolas Frankel Aug 1, 2023 4,104 views

Book Review: "Designing APIs with Swagger and OpenAPI"

This review is about Designing APIs with Swagger and OpenAPI by Joshua S. Ponelat and Lukas L. Rosenstock from Manning.

Book Review Books

Nicolas Frankel Jul 27, 2023 4,786 views

Evaluating Apache APISIX vs. Spring Cloud Gateway

In this article, I'd like to share my understanding of Spring Cloud Gateway and how it compares to Apache APISIX.

DevOps Opinion Research

Nicolas Frankel Jul 26, 2023 7 views

Apache APISIX without etcd

etcd is an excellent key-value distributed database used internally by Kubernetes and managed by the CNCF. It's a great option, and that's …

Databases

Nicolas Frankel Jul 17, 2023 3,854 views

Reactive Database Access on the JVM

Let's browse through the surface of the main three reactive database access: Spring Data R2DBC, Hibernate, and jOOQ!

Databases Kotlin

Nicolas Frankel Jul 7, 2023 2,292 views

Sticky sessions with Apache APISIX - the demo

Learn how to setup sticky sessions with Apache APISIX and replication involving the Spring ecosystem and Hazelcast.

DevOps Hazelcast Spring

Nicolas Frankel Jul 7, 2023 3,028 views

Sticky sessions with Apache APISIX

Learn about sticky sessions, that you should always use session replication with them, and how to implement sticky sessions on Apache …

DevOps

Nicolas Frankel Jul 2, 2023 3,341 views

Working on An Unfamiliar Codebase

If you want to understand a codebase better, you need more than just to read its code; you need to draw diagrams.

Developer Tools Tools

Nicolas Frankel Jun 12, 2023 3,631 views

GitLab Pages Preview

How to preview GitLab Pages and share the preview's URL with teammates in a couple of steps.

DevOps GitLab

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