This article describes how to develop microservices with Quarkus which use Apache Kafka running in a Kubernetes cluster. Quarkus supports MicroProfile Reactive Messaging to interact with Apache Ka...

In the context of cloud-native applications the topic ‘reactive’ becomes more and more important, since more efficient applications can be built and user experiences can be improved. If you want to...

I had the pleasure to get interviewed in two airhacks.fm podcasts by Java guru Adam Bien. It was a lot of fun. The first podcast #63 NodeJS, MicroProfile and Java Cloud Native Starter was primaril...

At code.talks in Hamburg I gave a talk about microservices, Eclipse MicroProfile and Kubernetes. In this session I used the cloud-native-starter sample application which is available as open sourc...

In the first part of this article I explain the amazing technologies Quarkus and Knative. In the second part I describe how to write simple microservices with Quarkus in Visual Studio Code in just ...

My colleagues Harald Uebele and Thomas Südbröcker and I’ve written two workshops for developers how to get started with Red Hat OpenShift on the IBM Cloud. The workshops are self-paced and availab...

This article describes Tekton, an open-source framework for creating CI/CD systems, and explains how to deploy microservices built with Eclipse MicroProfile on Kubernetes and OpenShift. What is Te...

This article describes Tekton, an open-source framework for creating CI/CD systems, and explains how to deploy and use it on the IBM Cloud Kubernetes service. What is Tekton? Kubernetes is the de...

I created a short video (4 mins) where I describe why the IBM Cloud is a great cloud platform for application developers. Transcript My name is Niklas Heidloff. I work as a developer advocate a...

Today (8/1/19) IBM announced the general availability of managed Red Hat OpenShift on the IBM Cloud. This article describes how developers can get started with OpenShift. OpenShift on the IBM Clou...