Brian McClain

Developer Engineering

Cleveland, OH

Brian is a senior product marketing manager on the Developer Engineering team at VMware. Prior to VMware and Pivotal, Brian worked on both the development and operations of software in many industries, including finance, entertainment, and technology. He loves learning and experimenting with new technologies, and more importantly sharing the lessons learned along the way.

Guides

Getting Started with Tekton Part 1: Hello World

Walk through the set up and installation of Tekton, a set of open source Kubernetes resources to build and run CI/CD pipelines.

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Gathering Metrics from Kubernetes with Prometheus and Grafana

Learn how to set up Prometheus and Grafana, two open source tools for gathering metrics and visualizing, on an existing Kubernetes cluster.

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What are Kubernetes Secrets and Service Accounts?

Kubernetes Secrets are a collection of keys and values that let you store sensitive information and a service account describes the set of permissions.

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Getting Started with Tekton Part 2: Building a Container

Using Tekton, an automation tool for CI/CD pipelines, learn how to build container images from a Dockerfile on top of Kubernetes.

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Basics of REST

Explore the basics of Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs, a software style that provides architectural constraints used for creating web services.

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Building an API with Spring Boot

Learn how to quickly develop a REST API from start to finish to build a microservice from scratch with this Spring Boot guide.

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Gathering Metrics from Spring Boot on Kubernetes with Prometheus and Grafana

Discover how to gather both standard and custom metrics from Spring Boot using Prometheus and visualize them in Grafana.

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What is Tekton?

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Getting Started with Zipkin and Spring Boot

Looking to track requests as they come into an application? Zipkin offers instrumentation for numerous frameworks, data services, and more.

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Getting Started with Wavefront for Spring Boot

VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront offers a free tier for Spring Boot developers. Get started today and walk through the basics of Wavefront for Spring Boot.

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Getting Started with Spring Cloud Stream

Leverage Spring Cloud Stream, a framework for building highly scalable, event-driven microservices for your enterprise needs.

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Getting Started with Kafka

Leverage Apache Kafka, a distributed streaming platform built for storing and processing streams of records, while focusing on performance.

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Getting Started with RabbitMQ

Leverage RabbitMQ, an open source message broker that is lightweight and easy to deploy on premises and in the cloud.

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What is Spring Cloud Stream?

Discover how to use Spring Cloud Stream, a framework for building highly scalable, event-driven microservices connected with shared messaging systems.

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What are Cloud Native Buildpacks?

Learn the basics of Cloud Native Buildpacks and discover how they work and how to use them to turn your code into OCI-compliant containers.

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Getting Started with Spring Cloud Gateway

Explore this Spring Cloud Gateway guide to look at the code that goes around defining a gateway and running a gateway with a Spring Boot application.

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What is Spring Cloud Gateway?

Discover the basics and importance of Spring Cloud Gateway, a library for building API gateways on top of Spring and Java.

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Code Samples

Spring Zipkin Demo

Instrument a Spring Boot application with Zipkin

Tekton Examples

A collection of examples for Tekton

Getting Started with RabbitMQ

An example of how to connect to, send, and receive messages from RabbitMQ in several languages.

Spring Boot REST API Demo

Building a REST API with Spring Boot

Getting Started with Kafka

An example of how to connect to, send, and receive messages from Kafka.