Microservices

MicroProfile Metrics with Prometheus and Grafana

In a distributed microservices architecture, it is important to have an overview of your systems in terms of CPU, memory management and other important metrics.

This is called Observability, measuring the internal state of a system, in this case, the micro-services instances.

The goal of MicroProfile Metrics is to expose monitoring data from the implementation in a unified way. It also defines a Java API so that the developer can define and supply his own values.

Getting Started with Payara Server

In this article, you’re presented with four short videos that will take you step-by-step through installing, writing, and deploying an application to Payara Server, even if you’ve never used the application server before.

Visit the Payara Getting Started page for further resources on getting started, including: Configuring, Adding a data source, Adding functionality, monitoring, security auditing, Creating a Restful Web Service, Logging, Testing Apps, etc.

Securing Microservices with Auth0 and MicroProfile in Kubernetes

In this day and age, securing enterprise platforms is a challenge that developers and consultants tackle in an uninformed manner, producing subpar solutions in most cases.

This presentation by Ondrej Mihalyi at DevOpsCon showcases the strength of combining MicroProfile and an OAuth service by doing a live demonstration of securing enterprise Java microservices in Kubernetes.

Evolution of Microservices

For some time now, there has been an undeniable growth in interest for Microservices. The core concept itself, however, is not that new.

Microservices are an architectural type that builds on (mostly) RESTful web services. Where RESTful web services, in general, can be used for just about anything, for instance, to expose an API to external users, Microservices are specifically dedicated to be independent business services that together form a suite of such services that make up an application.

What’s New in the Payara Platform October Release?

We’re happy to announce that Payara Platform Community 5.2020.5 (direct download here) and Payara Platform Enterprise 5.22.0 (request here) Editions are out!

With this major release of Payara Platform Enterprise, we’re introducing Payara InSight: a new and improved version of the Community Edition’s Monitoring Console. Enterprise Edition also features some tooling enhancements including IntelliJ support and NetBeans Community Tooling.