Spring Boot

Creating a Consumer-Driven Contract with Feign and Pact

Creating a Consumer-Driven Contract with Feign and Pact

Consumer-driven contract tests are a technique to test integration points between API providers and API consumers without the hassle of end-to-end tests (read it up in a recent blog post).

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Structuring and Testing Modules and Layers with Spring Boot

Structuring and Testing Modules and Layers with Spring Boot

Well-behaved software consists of highly cohesive modules that are loosely coupled to other modules. Each module takes care from user input in the web layer down to writing into and reading from the database.

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Modularizing a Spring Boot Application

Modularizing a Spring Boot Application

Every software project comes to a point where the code should be broken up into modules. These may be modules within a single code base or modules that each live in their own code base.

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Testing a Spring Boot REST API Consumer against a Contract with Spring Cloud Contract

Testing a Spring Boot REST API Consumer against a Contract with Spring Cloud Contract

Consumer-driven contract tests are a technique to test integration points between API providers and API consumers without the hassle of end-to-end tests (read it up in a recent blog post).

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Autostart for your Spring Boot Application

Autostart for your Spring Boot Application

A few months ago I was asked to find a solution for starting and stopping a Spring Boot application under Windows automatically together with the computer this application was running on.

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Event Messaging for Microservices with Spring Boot and RabbitMQ

Event Messaging for Microservices with Spring Boot and RabbitMQ

In a microservice environment or any other distributed system you may come upon the requirement to exchange events between services. This article shows how to implement a messaging solution with RabbitMQ.

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