Monthly Archives: August 2022

GraphQL for Java Developers: What You Actually Need to Know

GraphQL has been on the Java back-end radar for a while, mostly as something the front-end team kept bringing up. In 2022 that shifted. Spring for GraphQL 1.0 became generally available in May. The official Spring team now provides first-party … Continue reading

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Apache Kafka vs RabbitMQ for Messaging in Java (and Where ActiveMQ Fits In)

If you’re standing in front of a whiteboard in Java land and someone has just drawn a box labelled “message queue,” you’re probably going to argue about Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ for the next forty minutes. They’ve become the default … Continue reading

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