Getting Started with OpenTelemetry for Java
OpenTelemetry is an open source telemetry framework created through the merger of OpenTracing and OpenCensus.
Blogs
2020 and Earlier
How BuzzFeed Migrated from a Perl Monolith to Go and Python Microservices
Starting in 2016 BuzzFeed began a re-architecture project moving from a single monolithic application written in Perl to a set of microservices.
Book Review: Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction
“Big Data has plenty of evangelists, but I’m not one of them,” writes Cathy O’Neil, a blogger (mathsbabe.org) and former quantitative analyst at the hedge fund DE Shaw.
Book Review and Interview: Mastering Eclipse Plug-in Development
Regular InfoQ Java contributor Dr. Alex Blewitt has recently published a follow-up to last year’s "Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example”.
Introducing Spring XD, a Runtime Environment for Big Data Applications
Spring XD (eXtreme Data) is Pivotal’s Big Data play. It joins Spring Boot and Grails as part of the execution portion of the Spring IO platform.
Book Review: "Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example"
Regular InfoQ Java contributor Dr. Alex Blewitt recently published “Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example” via PACKT publishing.
Virtual Panel: Using Java in Low Latency Environments
InfoQ brings together four experts in low latency Java to discuss some of the best practices when using Java in these situations.
Rejection of Social Media API by JCP Expert Group Members Sparks Debate On Innovation
When the JCP rejected JSR 357 (Social Media API) in an 8 to 5 vote, members criticised it for being too broad in scope. However, members favouring the proposal indicated this was a political move.
Book Review and Interview: Java Performance, by Charlie Hunt and Binu John
Java Performance, by Charlie Hunt and Binu John, provides performance tuning advice for both Java SE and EE applications. InfoQ reviews the book, and talks to the authors about their approach.
Oracle and the Java Ecosystem
Oracle is making huge efforts to engage with the wider Java ecosystem, but challenges still remain.
A Discussion With Neal Gafter on the Future of Java
Neal Gafter discusses the impact of Oracle's acquisition on Java, makes the case for adding segmented stacks and a meta-object protocol to Java, and compares Java and C#/.NET.
SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer Discusses the Impact of the Cloud on Enterprise IT
SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer, discusses the impact of mobile devices, HTML 5 and cloud-computing on enterprise IT generally, and SpringSource's Cloud Foundry product.
Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performance and Encapsulation As Primary Drivers
While still a major user of Ruby and Rails, Twitter has gradually been moving more and more of its stack to Java and Scala. InfoQ spoke to Twitter engineer Evan Weaver to find out more.
Guardian.co.uk Switching from Java to Scala
Citing a need to be able to respond faster to events, and disappointment in both feature set and timeframe for Java 7, the guardian.co.uk team is using Scala rather than Java for new projects.
The Azul Garbage Collector
InfoQ examines how Azul's collector works, and explores some techniques you can use to test the impact of garbage collection in your applications.
An Introduction to SpringSource's Advanced Message Queuing Protocol Support
This article looks at the problems AMQP is aiming to address, exploring some of the debate and controversy that the draft specification has generated, and looks at SpringSource's AMQP products.
Catching up with Nuxeo: Switching from Python to Java
Nuxeo announced in 2006 that they were switching their core product from Python to Java. We recently caught up with Eric Barroca, CEO at Nuxeo, to find out about their current product architecture.
JSR 292 and the Multi-lingual JVM
Java 7 aims to improve support for dynamic languages through JSR 292. InfoQ takes a detailed look at the problems JSR 292 solves, and talks to JRuby lead Charles Nutter about JSR 292 in practice.
Evolving Java Without Changing the Language
InfoQ examines three techniques for encouraging experimentation with potential new Java language features - DSLs, the annotation processor, and moving the syntactic sugar from the language to the IDE.
Java FX Technology Preview
InfoQ takes a look at the JavaFX preview build and talks to Sun Staff Engineer Joshua Marinacci about the upcoming version 1 release expected this autumn.
Interview: Emmanuel Bernard on the Bean Validation specification
InfoQ sat down with Emmanuel Bernard to learn more about the Bean Validation framework and the community involvement the expert group is seeking.
