Reflectoring
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Getting Started with AWS CDK
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the managing and provisioning of infrastructure through code instead of through a manual process. AWS provides native support for IaC through the CloudFormation service.
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Complete Guide to the Immutables Java Library
Immutability means that an object’s state is constant after the initialization. It cannot change afterward. When we pass an object into a method, we pass the reference to that object.
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Common Operations on Java Collections
Collections are containers to group multiple items in a single unit. For example, a collection can represent a stack of books, products of a category, a queue of text messages, etc.
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Tracing with Spring Boot, OpenTelemetry, and Jaeger
In a distributed system, many services can be involved in creating a response to a single request. Not only for debugging purposes it’s essential that the path of such a request can be traced through all involved services.
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Reflectoring Review 2021 - Growing Slowly
It’s the time of the year again when I reflect about the Reflectoring year (pun intended). In this article, I share a bit about my successes and failures as a creator of code, text, and (coming up) a SaaS product.
Read moreComplete Guide to Spring RestTemplate
REST-styled APIs are all around us. Many applications need to invoke REST APIs for some or all of their functions. Hence for applications to function gracefully, they need to consume APIs elegantly and consistently.
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