Java

Optimize Your Dev Loop with Spring Boot Dev Tools

Optimize Your Dev Loop with Spring Boot Dev Tools

What are you doing when you’ve made a change to a Spring Boot app and want to test it? You probably restart it and go get a coffee or swipe through your Twitter feed until it’s up and running again.

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Implementing Rate Limiting with Resilience4j

Implementing Rate Limiting with Resilience4j

In the previous article in this series, we learned about Resilience4j and how to use its Retry module. Let’s now learn about the RateLimiter - what it is, when and how to use it, and what to watch out for when implementing rate limiting (or “throttling”, as it’s also called).

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Run Your Maven Build Anywhere with the Maven Wrapper

Run Your Maven Build Anywhere with the Maven Wrapper

In this article, we’ll learn about the Maven Wrapper - what problem it solves, how to set it up, and how it works.

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Implementing Retry with Resilience4j

Implementing Retry with Resilience4j

In this article, we’ll start with a quick intro to Resilience4j and then deep dive into its Retry module. We’ll learn when and how to use it, and what features it provides.

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Reactive Multi-Threading with RxJava - Pitfalls and Solutions

Reactive Multi-Threading with RxJava - Pitfalls and Solutions

I recently had a rough time refactoring a multi-threaded, reactive message processor. It just didn’t seem to be working the way I expected.

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Hexagonal Architecture with Java and Spring

Hexagonal Architecture with Java and Spring

The term “Hexagonal Architecture” has been around for a long time. Long enough that the primary source on this topic has been offline for a while and has only recently been rescued from the archives.

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