In this article I'm going to present an annotation-based Spring Boot library for integration with Istio. The Spring Boot Istio library provides auto-configuration, so you don't have to do anything…
Spring Boot Library for integration with Istio

Java, Spring, Kotlin, microservices, Kubernetes, containers
In this article I'm going to present an annotation-based Spring Boot library for integration with Istio. The Spring Boot Istio library provides auto-configuration, so you don't have to do anything…
Although Kubernetes is a great solution for managing containerized applications, scaling, and automating deployment, a local development on it may be a painful experience. A typical workflow includes several steps…
Spring Cloud Stream framework allows us to easily include well-known Spring patterns and best practices to applications while implementing event-driven microservices architecture. It uses the Spring Integration project to provide…
An ability to handle communication failures in an inter-service communication is an absolute necessity for every single service mesh framework. It includes handling of timeouts and HTTP error codes. In…
Istio is currently the leading solution for building service mesh on Kubernetes. Thanks to Istio you can take control of a communication process between microservices. It also lets you secure…
Spring Cloud is currently on the verge of large changes. I have been writing about it in my previous article A New Era of Spring Cloud. While almost all of…
Almost 1.5 years ago Spring Team announced the decision of moving most of Spring Cloud Netflix components into maintenance mode. It means that new features have no longer been added…
Scope functions is one of the Kotlin feature I really like. When using such a function on an object, you are executing a block of code within the context of…
My YouTube channel has been finally released! It is available here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAieNgran7umupT_D50KaGw. I'm going to publish there tutorials and courses in the same subject matter as on my dev blog:…
In this article I’ll guide you through the steps required for building and running simple Kotlin microservice on Google Kubernetes Engine. We will use such and framework like Spring Boot,…