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Win yourself an Amazon Kindle and major bragging rights!Does your Open Source App rock? Would it be a example of elegant design and simplicity of execution that uses any of the languages, data...
View ArticleNew Relic App Monitoring in Stackato
As Diane Mueller mentioned in a post back in August, we've partnered with New Relic to provide application-level monitoring of apps running on Stackato.But I've been asked to elaborate a little more...
View ArticleUsing Eclipse STS with Stackato
Last week, we decided to take SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) for a spin with Stackato. The point was to try a tool engineered for a standard version of Cloud Foundry with our variant, and make sure our...
View ArticleDeploying Java to Stackato with Buildpacks
We have just added the well known pet-clinic Java application to the Stackato App Store, and it works well!One thing about Java applications is that you need to generate byte code to execute it, and...
View ArticleStackato 2.0 and Apache TomEE
One of the new features of Stackato 2.0 is the support of JEE applications.Java Enterprise Edition is the enterprise side of Java. This platform provides an API and runtime environment for developing...
View ArticleWhy I joined ActiveState
During my software development career I've been fortunate to work with dozens of bleeding edge, innovative, and very cool technologies. And as much as I enjoy the end results of software creation, I...
View ArticleJava 7 comes to Stackato
Stackato has supported Java from the beginning, but without buildpacks the choice of Java runtimes has thus far been limited to exactly one: Java6 (née jdk1.6) which until recently was the most widely...
View ArticleNo More Leaks: Detecting Memory Leaks in Cloud Applications with Plumbr and...
A few months ago at JavaOne I had the pleasure of meeting Nikita Salnikov-Tarnovski, founder of Plumbr, an exciting startup from Estonia. Nikita and his team have created a tool which I believe should...
View ArticlePaaS: Buildpacks
Buildpacks have become the way to standardize the setup of your stack in a PaaS. In some areas of PaaS, buildpacks may become displaced by Docker images and Dockerfiles, but for now they are the best...
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