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• Java

  Comparison of Java HTTP Clients

  Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-layer protocol for transmitting hypermedia documents, such as HTML, and API payloads in a standard format like JSON and XML.

  Pratik Das January 19, 202211 min read
  
• Software Craft

  One Best Way - Continuous Improvement in Software Engineering

  Let’s talk about what it means to find the one best way of doing something. We’ve been trying to answer this question since the dawn of someone teaching anyone how to do a task.

  Heidi Waterhouse November 7, 20217 min read
  
• Spring Boot

  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.

  Tom Hombergs November 6, 202110 min read
  
• Software Craft

  Laws and Principles of Software Development

  In discussions around software development, it’s almost impossible to avoid quoting a law or two. “This won’t work because of ‘The Law of X’!

  Tom Hombergs October 31, 202116 min read
  
• Java

  Timeouts with Spring Boot and Resilience4j

  In this series so far, we have learned how to use the Resilience4j Retry, RateLimiter, TimeLimiter, Bulkhead, Circuitbreaker core modules and also seen its Spring Boot support for the Retry and the RateLimiter modules.

  Saajan Nagendra October 24, 20216 min read
  
• Java

  Asserting Lists with AssertJ

  In tests, we need to add assertions to make sure that a result is the expected result. For this, we can make use of the AssertJ assertion library.

  Mateo Stjepanović October 4, 202112 min read