Blog Posts

    Hashtag Jakarta EE #10

    Sunday, March 8, 2020 - 16:33 by Ivar Grimstad
    Welcome to the tenth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Join me in celebrating the 10th issueversity of this series! I can’t believe we’re already at 10. In the MicroProfile Hangout this week, the discussion around technical alignment with related technologies and standardization efforts (such as Jakarta EE) continued. Two approaches...

    Hashtag Jakarta EE #9

    Sunday, March 1, 2020 - 19:02 by Ivar Grimstad
    Welcome to the ninth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week, I had the pleasure of speaking at ConFoo in Montreal. It was my second time speaking at this conference. This was the 18th edition and the number of attendees has increased every year. 839 registered attendees this year! My...

    Hashtag Jakarta EE #8

    Sunday, February 23, 2020 - 05:59 by Ivar Grimstad
    Welcome to the eigth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week, I was at Devnexus in Atlanta. This awesome conference organized by the Atlanta Java User Group has established itself as the place to be if you are a Java developer. This year with 2400 attendees and an amazing line-up...

    Postmortem - February 7 storage and authentication outage

    Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 11:12 by Denis Roy
    On Friday, February 7 2020, Eclipse.org suffered a severe service disruption to many of its web properties when our primary authentication server and file server suffered a hardware failure. For 90 minutes, our main website, www.eclipse.org, was mostly available, as was our Bugzilla bug tracking tool, but logging in was...

    Hashtag Jakarta EE #7

    Sunday, February 16, 2020 - 05:59 by Ivar Grimstad
    Welcome to the seventh issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! One of the most common questions I get when talking about Jakarta EE is: “How can I help?”. Well, here is a suggestion: The post “ Help wanted: improved signature test tool” by Bill Shannon on the Jakarta EE Community mailing...

    Specification Project Committer Agreements

    Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - 13:36 by Wayne Beaton
    We identified a hole in our committer agreement process that excluded individuals with a certain employment status from participating in Eclipse Foundation open source specification projects operating under the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP). I’ll start by saying that you don’t need to be a committer to contribute to an...

    Anatomy of a server failure

    Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - 09:51 by Denis Roy
    Last Friday, Feb 7 at around 12:30pm (Ottawa time), I received a notification from Fred Gurr (part of our release engineering team) that something was going on with the infra. The multitude of colours on the Eclipse Service Status page confirmed it -- many of our services and tools were...

    Hashtag Jakarta EE #6

    Sunday, February 9, 2020 - 05:59 by Ivar Grimstad
    Welcome to the sixth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! On the fun side, I was made aware that my shoutout for the Hashtag series may be a little confusing as you can see in my conversation with Ronnie Zolverda. I didn’t want to use #5 to indicate number 5 since...

    Sparkplug: Standardizing Industrial IoT Communications

    Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 08:08 by Mike Milinkovich
    With the launch this week of the Sparkplug Working Group, we’re bringing together the industry leaders and technologies needed to drive development and broad adoption of the Eclipse Sparkplug specification for open, interoperable, Industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions that use the MQTT protocol. MQTT is an open and lightweight publish-subscribe messaging...