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Autostart for your Spring Boot Application

Autostart for your Spring Boot Application

A few months ago I was asked to find a solution for starting and stopping a Spring Boot application under Windows automatically together with the computer this application was running on.

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A Fully Automated Open Source Release Chain with Gradle and Travis CI

A Fully Automated Open Source Release Chain with Gradle and Travis CI

“Release early, release often”. This philosophy should be a goal for every software project. Users can only give quality feedback when they have early access to a software release.

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Publishing Open Source Snapshots with Gradle

Publishing Open Source Snapshots with Gradle

One of the most fulfilling things in developing an open source project is getting feedback from the users of your project.

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Creating a Consumer-Driven Contract with Angular and Pact

Creating a Consumer-Driven Contract with Angular and Pact

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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Publishing Open Source Releases with Gradle

Publishing Open Source Releases with Gradle

When working on an open source Java project, you always come to the point where you want to share your work with the developer community (at least that should be the goal).

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7 Reasons to Choose Consumer-Driven Contract Tests Over End-to-End Tests

7 Reasons to Choose Consumer-Driven Contract Tests Over End-to-End Tests

In a distributed system, testing the successful integration between distributed services is essential for ensuring that the services won’t fail in production just because they’re not speaking the same language.

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