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Debugging a JVM Crash for LinkedIn – Part 1

May 9, 2022 May 9, 2022 05/9/22

Brian Stafford

Introduction As part of the work we do in the Java Engineering Group we provide support to many first- and third-party customers of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, particularly those who run Java workloads on Azure. One of our largest customers is LinkedIn. In the past couple of years our group has worked with LinkedIn to assist with their...

Join us at Microsoft JDConf 2022

March 7, 2022 Mar 7, 2022 03/7/22

Nate Ceres

Join us for the second Microsoft JDConf event on May 4-5, 2022. JDConf is a virtual, Java focused conference where developers can come together to share interesting topics and stay engaged. Learn about the latest cloud development trends, best practices, tips, tricks, and more.

Spot every Spring Boot application issue on the spot using AppDynamics!

October 25, 2021 Oct 25, 2021 10/25/21

Asir Selvasingh

Today, we are excited to announce the integration of AppDynamics in the Azure Spring Cloud for full-stack observability. Over the past 20 months, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about the scenarios they face. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring Boot applications running in on-premises data centers. As they ...

Gradle – Deploy Java web apps to Azure in one step!

September 22, 2021 Sep 22, 2021 09/22/21

Yuchen Wang

We are excited to announce a new Gradle plugin for Azure Web Apps. This plugin lets Java developers deploy Gradle projects to Azure Web Apps in one step, without installing any Azure specific tools.

Join Microsoft at SpringOne 2021

August 25, 2021 Aug 25, 2021 08/25/21

Nate Ceres

Microsoft has our biggest ever presence at SpringOne this year. We’re excited to share a range of sessions across topics, all in close partnership with VMware.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – May 2021

June 15, 2021 Jun 15, 2021 06/15/21

Yaojin Yang

Welcome to May’s updates on VS Code for Java. In this edition, we will share with you Java Formatter Settings Editor, generating tests from source file, debugging enhancement and Jupyter Notebook for Java.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – April 2021

May 13, 2021 May 13, 2021 05/13/21

Yaojin Yang

Welcome to VS Code update for Java. Another busy and productive month. Debugger for Java and Java Test Runner extensions got new features.

Automate Spring Boot application deployments to Azure!

May 13, 2021 May 13, 2021 05/13/21

Asir Selvasingh

Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of the Azure Pipeline Task for deploying Spring Boot applications to Azure Spring Cloud. You can get started by building your pipelines using the Azure Spring Cloud task to automate Spring Boot application deployments to any number of environments and Azure Regions. Over the past 18 months...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – March 2021

April 20, 2021 Apr 20, 2021 04/20/21

Yaojin Yang

It’s blogging time again. Welcome to VS Code update for Java. In the last couple of months, our engineers have been working on a few very important things. Now, it’s time to uncover. Let’s start.

Microsoft JFR Streaming Library for Java Flight Recorder

April 12, 2021 Apr 12, 2021 04/12/21

David Grieve

Today we are happy to share the first release of our JFR Streaming library. With this library, developers can easily manage Java Flight Recordings programmatically. It includes commonly expected features such as starting and stopping a flight recording on a local or remote JVM and reading the recorded file as an InputStream. Azure ...

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