Armeria Newsletter vol. 3

From the devs

• 👂 Armeria team now hosts bi-weekly virtual office hours.
  • Please feel free to join in and share your thoughts!

• ✨ We released 15 releases since our last newsletter with a bunch of new exciting features!
  • HTTP/JSON-to-gRPC transcoding like Google does, without any API gateway server
  • GraphQL support with GraphQL Java and Sangria.
  • Immutable Cookie API designed with usability in mind
  • Fully asynchronous OAuth 2.0 module
  • Reactive multipart streaming API
  • WebClient can now follow redirects with highly customizable redirect rules.
  • Convenient stream transformation APIs such as map, concat, recover and collect
  • Dynamic server reconfiguration with Server.reconfigure()
  • Scala integration
  • Other numerous API usability improvements

From the community

• 🎓 Did you know you can build a REST API with Armeria?
  • Try this guided tutorial by @freevie to learn how to write a REST endpoint with Armeria.

• 📈 Monitoring Prometheus metrics from Armeria
• 🎨 Customizing Armeria metrics
  • In this 2-part article, @jupiny shows you how you can record the detailed metrics and customize them in your Armeria service.

• 💉 Interested in service-level automatic fault injection testing?
  • Check out this demo video by @cmeiklejohn that shows building an application with Armeria and then using Filibuster (paper accepted to ACM SoCC '21) for automatically testing the failure scenarios caused by remote services and dependencies.

• 🖥 Looking for a virtual tech conference?
  • Register now for the talk by @cnabro about his experience building a large scale gRPC and GraphQL service with Armeria on Nov 11th.

We need your comments

• 🤔 Your opinion means a lot to us. Please let us know what you think about these proposals:
  • #3598 Reconsider the restartability of Server.
  • #3700 Should Endpoint have optional SessionProtocol and SerializationFormat?
  • #3820 Nullable or exception-throwing getters in RequestHeaders

Good first issues

• 🔰 Want to contribute but not sure where to start from? Try one of these:
  • #2353 Add a gRPC reverse proxy example.
  • #3788 Deprecate Cookie.builder() and introduce a method with secure defaults.

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Thank you!

Since our last newsletter, we received awesome contributions from the following contributors: