Articles by Pratik Das
Creating and Analyzing Java Heap Dumps
As Java developers, we are familiar with our applications throwing OutOfMemoryErrors or our server monitoring tools throwing alerts and complaining about high JVM memory utilization.
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Getting Started with GraphQL
GraphQL was developed by Facebook in 2012 for their mobile apps. It was open-sourced in 2015 and is now used by many development teams, including some prominent ones like GitHub, Twitter, and Airbnb.
Read moreUsing Elasticsearch with Spring Boot
Elasticsearch is built on top of Apache Lucene and was first released by Elasticsearch N.V. (now Elastic) in 2010. According to the website of Elastic, it is a distributed open-source search and analytics engine for all types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured.
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12 Factor Apps with Spring Boot
The Twelve-Factor App is a set of guidelines for building cloud-native applications. By cloud-native, we will mean an application that is portable across environments, easy to update, and scalable enough to take advantage of the elastic capabilities of the cloud.
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Health Checks with Spring Boot
Monitoring and observability are essential in distributed environments and they rely on effective health checking mechanisms that can be observed at runtime.
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Creating Optimized Docker Images for a Spring Boot Application
Containers have emerged as the preferred means of packaging an application with all the software and operating system dependencies and then shipping that across to different environments.
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