A microservices application is one that is composed of a series of discrete services, which communicate with one another via an API. Microservices apps are the opposite of monolithic applications. The ...

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In March 2014, Martin Fowler and James Lewis from ThoughtWorks published an article on microservices. Since then, the concept has gained prominence among web-scale startups and enterprises. A ...

MicroProfile, which provides a technology blueprint to outfit enterprise Java for microservices deployments, has become an Eclipse Foundation project. Now known as Eclipse MicroProfile, the effort ...

Oracle has released Helidon 2.0, an upgrade to its Java libraries designed to simplify microservices development. The upgrade brings GraalVM Native Image startup and memory consumption benefits to ...