Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

Summary

We've done it! We've created, many of us, our very first AWS Lambda function, and it really wasn't all that difficult. It is a simple application, of course, but I hope you can see how this type of application could be very useful. Using this as a starting point, you can write systems, with the help of a mobile application, to help keep track of your family's location. Using embedded devices such as Raspberry PI, for example, you can build devices to track inventory as it is shipped across the country, reporting location, speed, environmental conditions, sudden drops or impacts, and so on. A piece of software running on a server could constantly report various metrics about the system, such as CPU temperature, free disk space, memory ...