Event Messaging for Microservices with Spring Boot and RabbitMQ
In a microservice environment or any other distributed system you may come upon the requirement to exchange events between services. This article shows how t...
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Tracing in Distributed Systems with Spring Cloud Sleuth
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A Guide to Formatting Code Snippets in Javadoc
Sometimes you want to add code snippets to our Javadoc comments, especially when developing an API of some kind. But how do you mark the code snippet so that...
Consumer-Driven Contracts with Pact, Feign and Spring Data REST
When thinking about integration testing in a distributed system, you quickly come across the concept of consumer-driven contracts. This blog post gives a sh...
Documenting a Spring Data REST API with Springfox and Swagger
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Accessing a Spring Data REST API with Feign
Spring Data REST is a framework that automatically exposes a REST API for Spring Data repositories, thus potentially saving a lot of manual programming work....
Handling associations between entities with Spring Data Rest
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Serializing LocalDate to JSON in Spring Boot
Today, I stumbled (once again) over LocalDate in a Spring Boot application. LocalDate came with Java 8 and is part of the new standard API in Java for workin...
Locking transitive Dependencies with NPM
As a developer I am lazy. I don’t build everything by myself because others have done it already. So, when I come upon a problem someone has already solved a...
A Checklist for setting up a Java-based Software Architecture
I recently had the opportunity to propose the architecture for a new large-scale software project. While it’s fun being paid for finding the technologies tha...