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Java & Docker: Java 10 improvements strengthen the friendship!

Till JDK 10, running java applications in linux containers was a bit tricky and requires additional setup to avoid surprises. These issues does not affect only older versions of Java (prior to 10), but also some tools that collect information from the execution environment like top, free and ps. That's

Devoxx UK 2018 trip report

This week I was so excited to: * Meet my friends from the java community * Visit Uk for the very first time! Isn't this something to be super excited about ?! Absolutely. Devoxx UK 2018 This is my third Devoxx, outside Morocco, that I visit. Devoxx is very special for me because

Trip report: Facebook F8 conference

My first visit to California (and the US) happened this week while attending the F8, the annual developer conference from Facebook. It was an intense 3 days, full of learning, announcements and FUN. In this post, I'll share with you some highlight of my first F8 experience. Facebook Developer Circles

A practical introduction to Spring Cloud Contract

Microservices are eating the world! The arrival of this concept changed not only the way we're designing our software architecture, but also how teams are formed, how they're organized and how they work together. One of the many other challenges that Microservices brings, is the way we test changes made

The magic behind the magic: Spring Boot Autoconfiguration

Spring boot is one of the most used and trending frameworks. The ease of use, the strong and lovely community and its powerful features makes Spring Boot one the most popular dev frameworks of 2017 In this post, we'll go behind the scenes and dig into the magic behind the

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