Modernizing Java Applications with the Five Rs and Strangler Pattern
Learn how to modernize legacy Java systems using rehost, refactor, revise, rebuild, replace, and the strangler pattern while managing data, sessions, testing, and endpoints.
Architecture Posts
Choosing Between Microservices, Miniservices, and Serverless
Learn how to evaluate release frequency, scale, data integrity, DevOps readiness, miniservice compromises, and serverless tradeoffs before choosing a Java architecture style.
Building Resilient Java Microservices with Fault Tolerance and Sagas
Learn how circuit breakers, fallbacks, retries, timeouts, idempotency, sagas, and backend orchestration help Java microservices survive distributed failures.
Automating Business Rules and Workflows in Java Systems
Learn how to separate changing business decisions and stateful processes using rules, CEP, DMN, BPMN, Drools, jBPM, and clear integration boundaries.
Designing Reliable Messaging with Queues and Delivery Guarantees
Learn how to design Java messaging flows with queues, topics, delivery guarantees, dead letter queues, message persistence, copies, and operational tracing.
Designing Java Integration Routes with ESB Patterns and Camel
Learn how Java teams can design integration routes with ESB ideas, enterprise integration patterns, Apache Camel, routing, transformation, and operational visibility.
Using MicroProfile and Quarkus for Cloud-Native Java Services
Learn how MicroProfile and Quarkus extend familiar Java APIs with cloud-native configuration, observability, packaging options, and productive persistence through Panache.
Building Enterprise Java APIs with Jakarta EE and WildFly
Learn how Jakarta EE and WildFly provide standardized enterprise APIs for REST, dependency injection, WebSocket communication, messaging, and JPA persistence.
Using Lean, Scrum, and Agile Tools to Reduce Delivery Waste
Learn how Lean waste reduction, Scrum roles and events, Kanban boards, Planning Poker, Kaizen, and Burndown charts help teams deliver useful software with clearer flow.
Choosing Between Code and Fix, Waterfall, and Agile Delivery
Learn how Code and Fix, Waterfall, and Agile shape software delivery, where each model helps or hurts, and how to choose a practical workflow for real projects.