What is the single best API technology you should always use? Thomas Betts moderated the discussion, with the goal to understand some of the high-level features and capabilities of three popular technologies for implementing APIs. The discussion covers some of the pros and cons of GraphQL and gRPC, and why you might use them instead of a RESTful API. By Michelle Garrett, Matt McLarty, Alex Borysov What is the single best API technology you should always use? Thomas Betts moderated the discussion, with the goal to understand some of the high-level features and capabilities of three popular technologies for implementing APIs. The discussion covers some of the pros and cons of GraphQL and gRPC, and why you might use them instead of a RESTful API. By Michelle Garrett, Matt McLarty, Alex BorysovRead More

This week’s Java roundup for January 10th, 2021, features news from JDK 18, JDK 19, Java’s plans for 2022 as presented by Nicolai Parlog, point releases for Spring Framework and Spring Data, Quarkus 2.6.2, Micronaut 3.2.5 and 3.2.6, Piranha 22.1.0, JobRunr 4.0.6, introducing Eclipse Jifa, Micrometer Metrics 2.0.0-M1, Micrometer Tracing 1.0.0-M1 and the July – December 2021 Foojay Status Report. By Michael Redlich This week’s Java roundup for January 10th, 2021, features news from JDK 18, JDK 19, Java’s plans for 2022 as presented by Nicolai Parlog, point releases for Spring Framework and Spring Data, Quarkus 2.6.2, Micronaut 3.2.5 and 3.2.6, Piranha 22.1.0, JobRunr 4.0.6, introducing Eclipse Jifa, Micrometer Metrics 2.0.0-M1, Micrometer Tracing 1.0.0-M1 and the July – December 2021 Foojay Status Report. By Michael RedlichRead More