Introducing the Ballerina Developer Certification - The Ballerina programming language

2023 Issue #5 - November

This is a recurring newsletter of content around Ballerina and related technology topics such as integration, microservices, distributed systems, and cloud computing.
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Get certified!

You can now level up your programming skills with the WSO2 Certified Ballerina (Swan Lake) Developer Certification. This certification is designed for developers who have intermediate-level knowledge and experience of Ballerina Swan Lake.

With this certification, you will:

Develop proficiency in designing, implementing, and deploying applications using the Ballerina programming language.
Have the skills to create robust integration solutions using Ballerina. This includes the ability to design and implement secure, high-performance APIs, as well as orchestrate complex integration flows across different systems and protocols.

Find out more on how you can get certified today!

Latest release

The Ballerina Swan Lake Update 8 (2201.8.0) release added a number of new features and improvements to the language, library, runtime, and tooling. Some of these include:

Java 17 Support: The Ballerina runtime is now upgraded to support Java 17 LTS, which is the latest long-term support release of the Java SE platform.
Custom package repositories support: With the Swan Lake Update 8 release youu can seamlessly integrate Maven repositories into the package build.
The bal tool and bal profile commands: This release introduces two new commands to the collection of Ballerina CLI commands.

Read our announcement blog for the full list of new features and updates.

New use case: Microservices

In our latest use case, we position Ballerina Swan Lake as the ideal language for building microservices due to its focus on ease of use, productivity, and built-in support for microservices-related concepts. Key features, such as a network-aware type system, native support for JSON and XML, and container-friendly deployment, emphasize how Ballerina can simplify the development and maintenance of microservices architectures. Read the full use case to explore resources for developers interested in leveraging Ballerina for microservices development.

Upcoming events

Ballerina Tech Talk
Crafting Seamless Frontend Experiences with Beautiful Ballerina Backends

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 | 9.30 a.m. IST

Join Ballerina team member Sasindu Alahakoon at the next Ballerina Tech Talk, where he will discuss how to integrate frontend applications with Ballerina services in a simple and efficient way. RSVP today and secure your spot.

Featured articles

GraphQL Federation with Ballerina and Apollo - Parts I & II

In his article series, Ballerina team member, Thisaru Guruge discusses the implementation of GraphQL Federation using Ballerina and Apollo. In part 1, he covers the fundamental concepts of GraphQL Federation and provides a step-by-step guide on how to set up a federated GraphQL schema using Ballerina and Apollo. Part 2 goes on to discuss how to implement Entity types and ReferenceResolvers in Ballerina and how to handle authentication and authorization in a federated GraphQL API.

Observe Ballerina Programs with New Relic

This article by Ballerina team member, Nipuna Madhushan focuses on how to observe Ballerina programs in New Relic, which is a Software as a Service offering that focuses on performance and availability monitoring. Read more to find out how you can observe metrics and traces in New Relic.

Mastering Work Queues in RabbitMQ with Ballerina

This tutorial by Ballerina team member, Arshika Mohotiige, shows you how to make RabbitMQ and Ballerina Swan Lake work together for competing consumers using work queues. It explains what competing consumers are, how RabbitMQ work queues function, and guides you on using the Ballerina RabbitMQ package. The tutorial also includes working code examples to make the development process straightforward.

Ballerina in the news

Top Microservices Frameworks to Build Highly Scalable Applications

Ballerina was featured in this iTechnoLabs article as one of the top microservices frameworks that have been widely adopted by developers for building scalable applications. Ballerina redefines the way developers approach microservices, offering a range of benefits that streamline the development process.

Featured X posts

This edition highlights Sameera Jayosoma, Tharik Kanaka, Bernardo Amorim, and Kanchana Wickremasinghe, for showing us how they use Ballerina Swan Lake. Thanks again for your support!

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