White Paper Published – Microservices: Patterns for Enterprise Agility and Scalability

Keyhole Software Architecture, Articles, Company News, Microservices, Tutorial 4 Comments

We’re excited to announce the release of a new, free white paper on the Microservices software architecture style.

Microservices is an architectural pattern gaining steam in the development community. A Microservices architecture addresses problems that modern enterprises often face, including responding to market demands, handling spikes in traffic, and being tolerant to failure. These benefits are achieved by functionally decomposing a business’ domain into microservices, services that handle only a single responsibility.

In this white paper, we discuss how Microservices came to be, contrasting architecture patterns, features of a Microservices architecture, established patterns, how to get started with Microservices, and suggestions for Microservices adoption.

Download the free Keyhole Software white paper today!

Keyhole Labs Releases Trouble Maker v2.0.0

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The Keyhole Labs team has announced the release of Trouble Maker v2.0.0.

Trouble Maker is a platform-agnostic tool that randomly takes down services to test stability. It also provides an ad hoc console to produce common troublesome issues in your platform so you can test durability on-demand.

Trouble Maker v2.0.0 introduces specific performance improvements implemented with Spring Boot and Java Websockets. Additionally, the Trouble Maker dashboard user interface has been re-designed, built from the ground up using Angular 2…

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Adventures In Modernization: Strategy + Example Converting COBOL To Java

Dallas Monson Articles, COBOL, Consulting, Development Technologies & Tools, DevOps, Java, Keyhole Creations, Modernization, Programming, Tutorial Leave a Comment

We have consultants who specialize in moving old to new, renovating dilapidated code bases, and designing brighter futures for enterprises who have been vendor-locked for most of their existence. We have come across some repeated patterns and strategies for how to approach modernization of legacy systems. In this blog, we will cover a strategy that is very popular right now, Re-Platforming.

The basic flow of this post will be:

Introduction to Modernization
High-level definition of the Re-Platforming Strategy for Modernization
Sample of Re-Platforming using Keyhole Syntax Tree Transformer, COBOL –> Java
Additional thoughts on the value/risk of this strategy

Let’s get started…

Coding For Fun: MIT Battlecode Challenge 2017

Joshua Robinson Articles, Community, Development Technologies & Tools, Educational Event, Programming Leave a Comment

I recently participated in the month-long MIT Battlecode competition where I programmed a team of virtual robots that competed against another team in a real-time strategy game. In this blog, I discuss some of the lessons learned during the programming competition. I was surprised how much of it could be used as a lesson in the real-world of programming!

We’re in this industry because we love programming and writing code. It is in this spirit that I suggest to all readers to consider challenging yourself and doing something similar to “code for fun” and improve your skills!

Learning Event Scheduled: Angular 2 In Action

Lauren Fournier Bogner Angular, Articles, Community, Company News, Educational Event, JavaScript Leave a Comment

We are excited to announce the next free public Keyhole Software educational event: Angular 2 In Action! This Breakfast Boost event is a live-coding learning opportunity open to the public. The presentation is geared to benefit software developers who are implementing or interested in AngularJS.

This free presentation will be held at the Keyhole Software office in Leawood, Kansas on Thursday, February 16, 2017 from 8-10 a.m. Space is limited. To get more information and reserve your free tickets…