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Ultra-Fast Microservices in Java: When Microstream Meets Open Liberty

Microservices have become a buzzword when we talk about creating a scalable application. But is that enough? The simple answer is no. As with any software architecture decision, it has a trade-off and several challenges. Lucky for us Java developers, there is a combination of two tools to make our life easier: Microstream and MicroProfile. This article will cover combining Microstream and Open Liberty to create a microservice application that is easily stable and ultra-fast.

Microservices With Open Liberty

Microservices provide several challenges to us software engineers, especially as a first step to facing distributed systems. But it does not mean that we're alone. Indeed there are several tools to make our life easier in the Java world, especially, MicroProfile. 

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Securing Open Liberty Applications With Azure Active Directory via OpenID Connect

Long gone are the days when you had to create your own user account management, authentication, and authorization for your web delivered software. Instead, contemporary applications leverage these functions (Identity and Access Management, IAM for short) from an external provider. As a full featured Java application runtime, Open Liberty has great options for externally provided IAM. Open Liberty supports IAM mainstays such as social media login, SAML and OpenID Connect. In Bruce Tiffany's blog post Securing Open Liberty apps and micro-services with MicroProfile JWT and Social Media login, you have a solid example on how to use the Open Liberty social media login feature to authenticate users using their existing social media credentials. In this blog post, let's take a look at another example on how to configure the Liberty social login feature as an OpenID Connect client to secure Java applications with Azure Active Directory.

The code used in this blog post is hosted on this GitHub repository as part of the official Azure samples - feel free to check it out and follow its user guide to run the Java EE demo application before or after reading this blog.

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Getting Started With Jakarta EE and Eclipse MicroProfile

Never heard of Jakarta EE and Eclipse MicroProfile yet? Then it's time to give it the first try and see how the Java Enterprise standard evolved. By developing a small application, this post demonstrates how to use these two technologies to build cloud-ready and state-of-the-art enterprise applications.

What Is Jakarta EE?

In a nutshell, it's a set of specifications (JAX-RS, CDI, JPA, JSON-P, etc.) to write enterprise applications with Java. These specifications are documents defining the API and interaction of a technology.