Spring Boot
Consumer-Driven Contracts with Pact, Feign and Spring Data REST
When thinking about integration testing in a distributed system, you quickly come across the concept of consumer-driven contracts. This blog post gives a short introduction into this concept and a concrete implementation example using the technologies Pact, Spring Boot, Feign and Spring Data REST.
Read moreDocumenting a Spring Data REST API with Springfox and Swagger
With Spring Data REST you can rapidly create a REST API that exposes your Spring Data repositories and thus provides CRUD support and more.
Read moreAccessing a Spring Data REST API with Feign
Spring Data REST is a framework that automatically exposes a REST API for Spring Data repositories, thus potentially saving a lot of manual programming work.
Read moreHandling Associations Between Entities with Spring Data REST
Spring Data Rest allows to rapidly create a REST API to manipulate and query a database by exposing Spring Data repositories via its @RepositoryRestResource annotation.
Read moreSerializing LocalDate to JSON in Spring Boot
Today, I stumbled (once again) over LocalDate in a Spring Boot application. LocalDate came with Java 8 and is part of the new standard API in Java for working with dates.
Read moreMonitoring the Error Rate of a Spring Boot Web Application
In my previous blog posts about creating monitoring metrics with Dropwizard Metrics and exposing them for the Prometheus monitoring application we already have gained a little insight into why monitoring is important and how to implement it.
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