Machine learning and predicate maintenance we are the role models of IoT use cases. Having an IoT gateway allows you to pre-process data before you send it upstream to your cloud. It also allows you to do local decisions, without the actual need for a cloud upload. But as you know from sitting at your favorite restaurant, staring at the menu, making decisions can be quite hard ;-) Complex event process and machine learning models can help you with IoT use cases though.

Varlink for Java is a Java based implementation of the Varlink interface. This blog post shows how varlink can be used in the Java world to solve the problem of accessing operating system functionality.

When you have a persistent volume in OpenShift configured with “Retain”, the volume will switch to “Released” after the claim has been deleted. But what now? How to manually recycle it? This post will give a brief overview on how to manually reclaim the volume.

This article walks you through the first steps of creating an OPC UA solution based on Eclipse Milo. OPC UA, also known as IEC 62541, is an IoT solution for connecting industrial automation systems. Eclipse Milo™ is an open-source Java based implementation.

It started a as proof-of-concept, checking out AsyncAPI and learning something about it. Actually that topic came to me from two different angles. We where looking into solutions for RPC over messaging (namely AMQP 1.0) instead of HTTP/REST. The second angle was a discussion with a very good friend of mine of “how do you define today an API about messages from the server to the client”. Everyone is talking about Swagger and OpenAPI, but this seems to be all request/response for HTTP based APIs.