The Payara Monthly Catch for Feb 2020

Memory Leaks in Java: A Cautionary Tale and Gentle Introduction to Preventing Memory Errors By Bradley Kofi 

Demystifying Kubernetes as a Service – How Alibaba Cloud Manages 10,000s of Kubernetes Clusters. In this blog post, the author shares the experience of managing a large number of Kubernetes clusters on cloud infrastructure, as well as the design of the underlying platform.

Java retrospective #5 – what will change the Java world in 2020? - Some interesting thoughts on what we have got to look forward to in 2020 from some very well known figures in the Java community. 

Hunting Down and Fixing Memory Leaks in Java - Memory leaks can be difficult to detect, and even harder to get rid of if you don't know what to be on the lookout for. In this post, the author explores the different tools you can use to find and fix them.

The Complete DevOps Developer Road Map - An excellent guide and resource to becoming a DevOps Engineer with a lot of great signposting. By Javin Paul.

Deploy a Jakarta EE application to the root context - Philipp Riecks shows how to deploy a Jakarta EE app to the root context "/" for each app server (Glassfish, Payara, OpenLiberty, WildFly). Eliminating the need for different context paths. 

What’s new with Jakarta NoSQL? (Part II) - Otavio Santana talks about the concept of cloud-native and runs an application with this concept using the latest milestone version of Jakarta EE NoSQL.

Payara Platform 2019 Community Survey Results- Our 2019 Community Survey results are now available! Thank you to everyone who participated for giving your time and insight into helping to improve the Payara Platform.

Hexagonal Architecture — Principles & Practical Example in Java - Animesh Gaitonde discusses the implementation of Hexagonal Architecture or Ports & Adapter Architecture.

Where programming languages are headed in 2020 - “Once again, rumours of Java’s demise have proved to be little more than wishful thinking on the part of the platform’s detractors.”

Java Stream Collectors Explained - In this article Ben Weidig explores how collectors work   and examines how you can build our own.

Stop Changing My Toolbox! - John Vester talks about the impact corporate changes can have on feature teams when they elect to make tooling changes ...at the absolute worst time.

Java Streams are great but it’s time for better Java Collections - In this article Don Raab
explores why after 25 years, it is time for a better and more modern Java Collections framework.

MicroProfile and Jakarta EE Technical Alignment - Steve Millidge weighs in on the MicroProfile vs Jakarta EE future alignment debate in this well received article. 

Minification of HTML in Java EE webapps - "Migrating features from run time to build time is actually very trendy. It can be seen in the rise of static blogging platforms such as Jekyll or Hugo."
by Nicolas Frankel

The Jakarta EE 9 Delivery Plan - Anticipating a mid-2020 GA release, the Jakarta EE platform project team presented the formal Jakarta EE 9 delivery plan to the Jakarta EE steering committee. Read more in this article by Michael Redlich.

Java on Visual Studio Update - February 2020 - In this update, Xiaokai He shows the new ways to manage your dependencies and configure your multiple JDK. You will learn the additional tools you can leverage for popular frameworks and runtimes.

Pros and Cons for Using GraalVM Native-Images - In this popular article, Petr Bouda examines the pros and cons for using GraalVM Native-Images from a performance point of view.

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