Spring Boot
Structured Logging with Spring Boot and Amazon CloudWatch
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Pratik Das
- May 8, 2023
The primary purpose of logging in applications is to debug and trace one or more root causes of an unexpected behavior.
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Testing Time-Based Features with Feature Flags
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Tom Hombergs
- August 3, 2022
Time-based features in a software application are a pain to test. To test such a feature, you can (and should) write unit tests, of course.
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Exposing a Helpful Info Endpoint with Spring Boot Actuator
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Saikat Sengupta
- March 28, 2022
In a distributed, fast-paced environment, dev teams often want to find out at what time they deployed the app, what version of the app they deployed, what Git commit was deployed, and more.
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Protect Your Code from NullPointerExceptions with Spring’s Null-Safety Annotations
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Saikat Sengupta
- February 1, 2022
NullPointerExceptions (often shortened as “NPE”) are a nightmare for every Java programmer. We can find plenty of articles on the internet explaining how to write null-safe code.
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Tracing with Spring Boot, OpenTelemetry, and Jaeger
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Tom Hombergs
- January 9, 2022
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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Complete Guide to Spring RestTemplate
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Pratik Das
- December 29, 2021
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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