Ant Kutschera

Ant is a freelance Java architect and developer. He has been writing a blog and white papers since 2004 and writes about anything he finds interesting, related to Java or software. Most recently he has been working on enterprise systems involving Eclipse RCP, Google GWT, Hibernate, Spring and J2ME. He believes very strongly in being involved in all parts of the software life cycle.

Software Development
Ant KutscheraMay 27th, 2021
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Eleven Patterns, Problems & Solutions related to Microservices and in particular Distributed Architectures
The wish to fulfil certain system quality attributes lead us to choose microservice architectures, which by their very nature are distributed, meaning that…
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Enterprise Java
Ant KutscheraMay 11th, 2021
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Kafka Record Patterns for Data Replication
Imagine going down to your local milkshake bar and signing a contract with the owner so that you could purchase…
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Enterprise Java
Ant KutscheraMarch 14th, 2018
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Java problem with mutual TLS authentication when using incoming and outgoing connections simultaneously
In most enterprise environments some form of secure communication (e.g. TLS or SSL) is used in connections between applications. In…
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Software Development
Ant KutscheraFebruary 22nd, 2018
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Revisiting Global Data Consistency in Distributed (Microservice) Architectures
Back in 2015 I wrote a couple of articles about how you can piggyback a standard Java EE Transaction Manager…
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Enterprise Java
Ant KutscheraOctober 8th, 2015
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Global Data Consistency, Transactions, Microservices and Spring Boot / Tomcat / Jetty
We often build applications which need to do several of the following things together: call backend (micro-) services, write to…
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Enterprise Java
Ant KutscheraAugust 19th, 2015
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Several Patterns for Binding Non-transactional Resources into JTA Transactions
I recently published an article about how to bind non-transactional resources like web services / microservices into global distributed transactions…
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Software Development
Ant KutscheraAugust 16th, 2015
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Mysql versions prior to 5.7 do not fully support two phase commit
While doing some tests for the recently released generic JCA adapter which is capable of binding remote calls to microservices…
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Software Development
Ant KutscheraAugust 13th, 2015
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Global Data Consistency in Distributed (Microservice) Architectures
I’ve published a generic JCA resource adapter on Github available from Maven (ch.maxant:genericconnector-rar) with an Apache 2.0 licence. This let’s…
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Enterprise Java
Ant KutscheraAugust 9th, 2015
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Is Asynchronous EJB Just a Gimmick?
In previous articles (here and here) I showed that creating non-blocking asynchronous applications could increase performance when the server is…
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