Approved for JavaOne LA!

Just a quick and small post to share that my proposal with Bruno Souza for JavaOne LA 2016 was approved! Our article Step-by-Step High Availability with Docker and Java EE is now officially turned into a talk. Couldn’t be happier! Time to work on it NOW.

10 people/profiles to follow on Twitter

If you spend some time finding people from your working area to follow on Twitter you will probably spend many days doing this. But are they all worthy of following? Narrowing down your options is key to keep your references really optimized. Here I will show you some of my favorite people and profiles to follow. Maybe it … Read more

A challenging solution needed

Some years ago I was presented to a project that needed a solution. No news at this point, that is the reality of any IT professional on daily basis. But then they started talking about the requirements… well, let me show them: They had a web-based system running in that classical way: a new company pay … Read more

Using Docker to deal with a TomEE missing feature

When I and Bruno Souza were writing the article “Step-by-Step High Availability with Docker and Java EE” we faced a little issue with an Apache TomEE cluster feature: the “hot” deployment thru the cluster nodes isn’t still available, although the configuration at the server.xml is already defined: <Deployer className=”org.apache.catalina.ha.deploy.FarmWarDeployer” deployDir=”/tmp/war-deploy/” tempDir=”/tmp/war-temp/” watchDir=”/tmp/war-listen/” watchEnabled=”true”/> The point is: if you deploy a new version … Read more