Tackling Java cold startup times on AWS Lambda with GraalVM
Have you ever tried running a Java application on AWS Lambda? Well, even the simplest Java application takes significant time to start up at first. And it’s not some Java Continue reading
Performance of running Spring Boot as AWS Lambda functions
I was always curious if there’s any way to use Spring Boot in the serverless world. I started digging deeper into the area and I came to the conclusion that Continue reading
Effective Hibernate with Spring on Udemy available
I wanted to let you know that I was finally able to finish my very first course on Udemy, Effective Hibernate with Spring. Here’s a link to the course with Continue reading
Remote work challenges as a team lead
I’ve been thinking of writing this article for the last few months because I felt there’s insufficient discussion on the challenges that came with remote work. When COVID has hit Continue reading
Java and Spring Boot multiline log support for Fluentd (EFK stack)
For a well-functioning application development team, it’s important to have the appropriate infrastructure behind, as a structured foundation. If the infrastructure is not supporting the application use-cases or the software Continue reading
Maintainable error handling with Feign clients? Not a dream anymore
Over the last couple of years, I’ve been using Feign to invoke HTTP APIs, let it be external or internal. If you are not familiar with Feign, here’s a very Continue reading
Fault-tolerant and reliable messaging with Kafka and Spring Boot
This is the second article in the Reliable Kafka messaging series. If you haven’t seen the previous article, make sure you read it before continuing. It’s important that you are Continue reading
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