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Justin Reock

Field CTO / Chief Evangelist

Justin has over 20 years of experience working in various software roles. He is an outspoken free software evangelist, delivering enterprise solutions, technical leadership, and community education on databases, architectures, and integration projects.

Latest Content from Justin Reock

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Prometheus Grafana Dashboard: How To Visualize Prometheus Data with Grafana

Now that you have Grafana and Prometheus connected, let's make some really strong and visually appealing dashboards.
Analytics
Blog

How to Use Prometheus Monitoring With Java to Gather Data

Prometheus is a monitoring tool that you can use for monitoring Java. Learn how to set up Prometheus exporters including the JMX Exporter, to improve your Prometheus monitoring today.
Analytics
Blog

Introduction to Enterprise Integration Patterns and Apache Camel

By combining a component-driven approach with an easy-to-understand syntax, Camel allows developers to federate various applications with minimal code.
Middleware, Development
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Why G1GC is the Best Choice for Garbage Collection in ActiveMQ

Instead of spending time wrestling with the standard JVM garbage collection ergonomics, why not just turn on G1GC and let it do the heavy lifting for you.
ActiveMQ, Middleware, Web Infrastructure
Blog

Is ActiveMQ’s Dynamic Queue Creation Working for You?

A brief walk-through of how to restrict ActiveMQ’s dynamic queue creation should your business decide the feature is not working for you.
ActiveMQ, Middleware, Web Infrastructure
Blog

ActiveMQ Persistence: Connection Pooling with c3p0 and JDBC

Walking through the steps necessary to create c3p0 connection pooling with a JDBC persistence store to achieve better performance
ActiveMQ, Middleware, Web Infrastructure
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ActiveMQ High Availability: Pluggable Storage Lockers

Learn how pluggable storage lockers help manage broker resource locking in ActiveMQ and get a tutorial on how to implement one method, the Lease Database locker.
ActiveMQ, Middleware, Web Infrastructure