- Spring Boot
Serializing 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.

- Spring Boot
Monitoring 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.

- Spring Boot
Exposing Metrics of a Spring Boot Application for Prometheus
Monitoring is an important quality requirement for applications that claim to be production-ready. In a previous blog post I discussed how to expose metrics of your Spring Boot application with the help of the Dropwizard Metrics library.

- Spring Boot
Exposing Metrics of a Spring Boot Application using Dropwizard
How do we know if an application we just put into production is working as it should? How do we know that the application can cope with the number of users and is not slowing down to a crawl?

- Spring Boot
Loading External Application Properties in the Gradle bootRun Task
The Spring Boot gradle plugin provides the bootRun task that allows a developer to start the application in a “developer mode” without first building a JAR file and then starting this JAR file.

- Spring Boot
Documenting your REST API with Spring Rest Docs
The first impression counts. When you’re developing an API of any kind, chances are that the first impression is gained from a look into the API docs.
