Fault-tolerant and reliable messaging with Kafka
Lately there is a trend to use a messaging system for practically everything. Just like it is with microservices. When it comes to messaging, you have to balance between the Continue reading
Health based traffic control with Kubernetes
Last time we covered how the liveness probe can be integrated with Spring Boot Actuator. Today, I’m going to show an example application for the readiness probe. Readiness probe The Continue reading
Smart healthchecks with Kubernetes and Spring Boot Actuator
I’ve seen quite some projects in the past using various orchestration tools for deploying applications. Probably the most popular one nowadays is Kubernetes (K8S). Even though these tools have such Continue reading
Deploying a simple Spring Boot with MySQL app to AWS using Elastic Beanstalk
There is no doubt that AWS is still a hot topic in 2019 so I felt that I should write something useful to get started with exploring it’s capabilities. In Continue reading
Integrating Swagger Brake into Maven/Gradle projects
In the previous article, I’ve covered the general ideas around Swagger Brake and how to use the command-line interface to check your API for breaking changes. Now, I’ll show you Continue reading
Introducing Swagger Brake
A couple of weeks ago, I could’ve really used just a standalone application to continuously check whether my API is getting broken. Imagine the situation that there are multiple consumers Continue reading
Encrypting JPA entity attributes using listeners in Spring
In 2018, it’s mandatory to think about security for every application which stores personal data. When it comes to this topic, you can’t be 100% sure that the application has Continue reading
Extending Swagger Codegen with new mustache template files using a new language
We’ve already seen a lot of things in the previous parts of the series. Although, it’s very useful if you know how to extend the code generation process for the Continue reading
Pessimistic locking in JPA/Hibernate
There are two ways to deal with concurrency conflicts, optimistic locking and pessimistic locking. Implicit optimistic locking has been already covered, if you didn’t have the chance to read my Continue reading
Setting up Netdata monitoring with Slack alarms
Monitoring is a crucial part of running any kind of application. Making sure that you have up-to-date information about the system where your application is set up is very important. Continue reading
