Java

Using Maven's Bill of Materials (BOM)

Using Maven’s Bill of Materials (BOM)

As Java developers, we may maintain many applications using Maven for their dependency management. These applications need upgrades from time to time to be up to date and to add new features or security updates.

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Implementing Plugins with Java's Service Provider Interface

Implementing Plugins with Java’s Service Provider Interface

In this article, we are going to talk about Java’s Service Provider Interface (SPI). We will have a short overview of what the SPI is and describe some cases where we can use it.

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Deploying a Spring Boot App with the AWS CDK

Deploying a Spring Boot App with the AWS CDK

In the article “Getting Started with AWS CloudFormation”, we have already played around a bit with AWS CloudFormation. We have deployed a network stack that provides the network infrastructure we need, and a service stack that deploys a Docker image with our Spring Boot application into that network.

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Creating and Analyzing Java Heap Dumps

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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Painless Code Formatting with EditorConfig

Painless Code Formatting with EditorConfig

Are you working on a project with other developers where reading code is not as fun as you would want because of inconsistent coding styles?

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Implementing a Circuit Breaker with Resilience4j

Implementing a Circuit Breaker with Resilience4j

In this series so far, we have learned about Resilience4j and its Retry, RateLimiter, TimeLimiter, and Bulkhead modules. In this article, we will explore the CircuitBreaker module.

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