devops

Effectively Bridging the DevOps – R&D Gap without Sacrificing Reliability

DevOps revolutionized our industry. CI & CD made six sigma common. Still bugs make it to production past our tests. Fixing them is harder now!

Remote and Distributed Build Patterns

Let’s review build patterns leveraging remote machines, clarify the definition of remote and distributed builds, and discuss their variations.

How to Publish a Java Maven Project to the Maven Central Repository

You can follow this article if you need to publish a Java Maven-based library or artifact to Maven.

Conditional Builds on GitLab

Learn how to run a build on GitLab only if a condition is met, especially helpful when conditions are expensive and time-consuming operations.

JDKMon 17.0.23 Released

JDKMon is a little tool written in JavaFX that tries to detect all OpenJDK distros installed while keeping track of updates for them.

Lights, Camera, Action: GitHub Actions with Java (Part 3)

The Java GitHub Actions that rules them all! Hey, everyone check Carl Dea’s 3rd and final instalment Lights, Camera, Action: GitHub Actions with Java

JDKMon 17.0.18 Released

Vulnerability information and TCK test status details are available and easily detectable with JDKMon 17.0.18.

Developer Productivity Masterclass: Interview With Leonid Blouvshtein

Are the problems startups run into different from the ones experienced by Netflix, Hashicorp and Meta? Learn about increased productivity!

Namespace Shadowing (a.k.a. “Dependency Confusion”) Attack

The npm Registry is vulnerable to supply chain namespace shadowing, also known as “Dependency Confusion” attacks.

Make sure you create npm scoped packages and force exclude patterns.

DevOps 101 Part III: Package Management

When you’re new to an industry, you encounter a lot of new concepts.

This can make it really difficult to get your feet underneath you on an unfamiliar landscape, especially for junior engineers.

What’s all this jargon? What does DevOps really mean?

Here, I’ll explain package managers!

DevOps 101 Part II: Container Registries

When you’re new to an industry, you encounter a lot of new concepts. This can make it really difficult to get your feet underneath you on an unfamiliar landscape, especially for junior engineers.

In this series, I’m covering tools and terminology common to the DevOps space, plus the occasional newbie-friendly tutorial for emerging or established technologies. If you have a request or suggestion, let me know!

Today, I’ll break down container registries.

DevOps 101 Part I: CI/CD

When you’re new to an industry, you encounter a lot of new concepts. This can make it really difficult to get your feet underneath you on an unfamiliar landscape, especially for junior engineers.

In this series, I’ll cover tools and terminology common to the DevOps space, plus the occasional newbie-friendly tutorial for emerging or established technologies. If you have a request or suggestion, let me know!

Today, I’ll break down CI/CD.

Monitoring Across Frameworks: Spring Boot, Micronaut, Quarkus, and Helidon

Gone are the times when developers’ jobs ended with the release of the application. Nowadays, developers care more and more about the operational side of IT: perhaps they operate applications themselves, but more probably, their organizations foster increased collaboration between Dev and Ops.

I started to become interested in the Ops side of software when I was still a consultant. When Spring Boot released the Actuator, I became excited. Via its convention-over-configuration nature, it was possible to add monitoring endpoints with just an additional dependency.

Since then, other frameworks have popped up. They also provide monitoring capabilities. In this article, I’d like to compare those frameworks concerning those capabilities.