Spring Boot

Protect Your Code from NullPointerExceptions with Spring’s Null-Safety Annotations

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

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

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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How to Internationalize a Spring Boot Application

Internationalization is the process of making an application adaptable to multiple languages and regions without major changes in the source code.

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Feature Flags with Spring Boot

Feature flags are a great tool to improve confidence in deployments and to avoid impacting customers with unintended changes. Instead of deploying a new feature directly to production, we “hide” it behind an if/else statement in our code that evaluates a feature flag.

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Zero Downtime Database Changes with Feature Flags - Step by Step

Whenever we make a change in our database schema, we also have to make a change in the code that uses that database schema.

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