OpenShift Compact Clusters: Revolutionizing Deployments

Imagine deploying your applications in environments where resources are scarce, connectivity is unreliable, and every hardware decision counts. Whether it’s edge computing sites, remote data centers, or on-premises installations with limited infrastructure, ensuring high performance and availability can be challenging. OpenShift Compact Clusters emerge as a transformative solution tailored to address these exact scenarios, offering […]

How to set up and demonstrate Quarkus GrumpyCat GitOps demo

Read this manual if you want to setup and demonstrate (or otherwise use) all the mechanisms of Quarkus GrumpyCat. First of all GrumpyCat is a micro services based multi player game, which you can use to demonstrate and play a nice PacMan / FatCat like game. But with this demo you can also easily demonstrate the benefits of using the GitOps principles for developing and deploying a bigger application.

Using Quarkus to develop a multiplayer game – Chapter #2 – The server feeds the client

Quarkus is a fantastic Java runtime environment and framework. Read this article to learn how easy it is to use Quarkus to create the server part of a multi player game (with a JavaScript client, running in a browser). Learn how to easily integrate Apache Kafka, WebSockets, a database, Qute templating for reporting etc. This is part TWO of a multi part article series.

Using Quarkus to develop a multiplayer game – Chapter #1 – Initial setup

Quarkus is a fantastic Java runtime environment and framework. Read this article to learn how easy it is to use Quarkus to create the server part of a multi player game (with a JavaScript client, running in a browser). Learn how to easily integrate Apache Kafka, WebSockets, a database, Qute templating for reporting etc. This is part ONE of a multi part article series.

How to quickly create a CRUD service with Quarkus

Quickly creating a REST CRUD service with Quarkus, making use of Dev Services for databases and a few extensions to move your service to a Kubernetes cluster.