One of the biggest problems with the development and deployment of server-side applications in Java is figuring out how and where to host them. HTML and JavaScript applications written in React or ...

Amazon this week announced Elastic Beanstalk, a managed Apache Tomcat service for AWS. Naturally, I had to try JRuby on it. First, the bad: AWSEB is really slow to deploy stuff. Several times it got ...

In 2021, Elastic moved to closed source licenses after several years of conflict with Amazon’s cloud subsidiary AWS, which was selling its own managed version of Elasticsearch. While AWS was perfectly ...