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Skipping a CI Build for non-code changes

Skipping a CI Build for non-code changes

Skipping a CI build is like purposefully not brushing your teeth every morning and evening. You know it should not be skipped and you feel guilty when you do it anyways.

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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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Microservice Communication Patterns

Microservice Communication Patterns

A microservice architecture is all about communication. How should services communicate in any given business scenario? Should they call each other synchronously?

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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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Publishing Open Source Releases to JCenter and Maven Central

Publishing Open Source Releases to JCenter and Maven Central

In previous articles, I discussed how to publish snapshots to oss.jfrog.org and how to publish releases to Bintray using Gradle as a build tool.

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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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