Kenneth Finnigan

Ken Finnigan has been a consultant and software engineer for more than 20 years with enterprises throughout the world. Ken has a history of delivering projects on time and on budget across many industries, providing key customer value. Ken is currently focused on all things observability, while also looking to innovate with Kubernetes-native development. Ken is part of the team developing Quarkus to be Supersonic Subatomic Java. He has previously served as the project lead for SmallRye, Thorntail, and LiveOak, with more than 10 years of experience contributing to open source. Ken is an author of several books in the tech space, including Enterprise Java Microservices (Manning, 2018).

books by Kenneth Finnigan

Enterprise Java Microservices
  • September 2018
  • ISBN 9781617294242
  • 272 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • available in Korean, Simplified Chinese
catalog / Software Development / Enterprise Development / Enterprise Architecture / Microservices

Enterprise Java Microservices teaches you to design and build JVM-based microservices applications. You’ll start by learning how microservices designs compare to traditional Java EE applications. Always practical, author Ken Finnigan introduces big-picture concepts along with the tools and techniques you’ll need to implement them. You’ll discover ecosystem components like Netflix Hystrix for fault tolerance and master the Just enough Application Server (JeAS) approach. To ensure smooth operations, you’ll also examine monitoring, security, testing, and deploying to the cloud.