Nicolas Fränkel
A Java Geek

A Java Geek

Nicolas Fränkel

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🥑 Developer Advocate @Hazelcast ✍️ Blogger at http://blog.frankel.ch 🎓 Learner 📖 Author of https://leanpub.com/integrationtest

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Port management in your local Kubernetes cluster

Nov 28, 20212 min read

Most of my talks contain a demo. A fair share of these demos require multiple "infrastructure" dependencies: a database (or more), Elasticsearch, you name it. To ease my setup and avoid stuffing my machine, I use either Docker Compose or Kubernetes l...

Port management in your local Kubernetes cluster

Native-image with Micronaut

Nov 21, 20218 min read

Last week, I wrote a native web app that queried the Marvel API using Spring Boot. This week, I want to do the same with the Micronaut framework. Creating a new project Micronaut offers two options to create a new project: A web UI: ![Micronaut Lau...

Native-image with Micronaut

Native-image with Spring Boot

Nov 14, 202111 min read

The Cloud has enabled a lot of new usages that were not possible before. Among them stands Serverless: Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider allocates machine resources on demand, taking care of the se...

Native-image with Spring Boot

Extending third-party APIs in different languages

Nov 7, 20217 min read

The need for shorter and shorter Time-To-Market requires to integrate more and more third-party libraries. There's no time for the NIH syndrom anymore if it ever was. While most of the time, the library's API is ready to use, it happens that one need...

Extending third-party APIs in different languages

A list of cache providers

Oct 31, 202112 min read

Last week, we described several criteria to look at to choose a cache. This week, it’s time to list Java cache providers based on these criteria. Java Caching System Guava Caffeine Ehcache Infinispan Coherence Community Edition Ignite Geode Hazelcas...

A list of cache providers

Hazelcast + Kibana: best buddies for exploring and visualizing data

Oct 28, 202118 min read

A lot, if not all, of data science projects, require some data visualization front-end to display the results for humans to analyze. Python seems to boast the most potent libraries, but do not lose hope if you're a Java developer (or if you're profic...

Hazelcast + Kibana: best buddies for exploring and visualizing data