Java

Per-Environment Logging with Plain Java and Spring Boot

Tom Hombergs
July 21, 2021

Application logs are the most important resource when it comes to investigating issues and incidents. Imagine something goes wrong during your on-call rotation and you don’t have any logs!

Java

Feature Flags in Java with Togglz and LaunchDarkly

Tom Hombergs
July 17, 2021

With feature flags, we can reduce the risk of rolling out software changes to a minimum. We deploy the software with the changes, but the changes are behind a deactivated feature flag.

Java

Creating and Analyzing Thread Dumps

Pratik Das
May 5, 2021

A thread is a basic path of execution in a program. Most of the applications we build today execute in a multi-threaded environment.

AWS
Java

Designing an AWS CDK Project with Java

Tom Hombergs
May 3, 2021

In the article “Getting Started with AWS CDK”, we have already deployed a Spring Boot application to AWS with the CDK.

Java

Clean Unit Tests with Mockito

Lukas Leuenberger
April 25, 2021

In this article we will learn how to mock objects with Mockito. We’ll first talk about what test doubles are and then how we can use them to create meaningful and tailored unit tests.