Spring Cloud is a Spring project which aims at providing tools for developers
helping them to quickly implement some of the most common design patterns like:
configuration management, service discovery, circuit breakers, routing, proxy,
control bus, one-time tokens, global locks, leadership election, distributed
sessions and much more.

One of the most interesting Spring Cloud sub-projects is Spring Cloud Streams
which provides an annotation driven framework to build message publishers and
subscribers. It supports the most recent messaging platforms like RabbitMQ and
Kafka and abstracts away their implementation details.

This project is demonstrating Spring Cloud Streams with Kafka platforms.

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This blog entry is analyzing the Docker native clustering option, with the brand new Swarm mode which is now a part of Docker Engine 1.12. Do we still have any reason to use Kubernetes clusters ? That's what we're trying to discuss here.

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In this moment I'm taking advantage of the Christmass truce and listening some good music. As a Paul Simon's fan from the very beggining, one of the titles that comes often on my playlist is "Mother and Child Reunion". It gave me the idea of writing this blog ticket on another kind of reunion, perhaps less dramatic, but not an easy one neither: the one betwenn Java and Docker or, more generally, Linux cgroups.

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