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
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
