If you are building reactive applications with Spring WebFlux, typically you will use Reactor Netty as a default embedded server. Reactor Netty is currently one of the most popular asynchronous…
A Deep Dive Into Spring WebFlux Threading Model
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Kubernetes ConfigMap Versioning for Spring Boot Apps
Kubernetes doesn’t provide built-in support for ConfigMap or Secret versioning. Sometimes such a feature may be useful, when we are deciding to rollback a current version of our application. In…
Using Spring Cloud Kubernetes External Library
In this article I'm going to introduce my newest library for registering Spring Boot applications running outside the Kubernetes cluster. The motivation for creating this library has already been described…
Best Practices For Microservices on Kubernetes
There are several best practices for building microservices architecture properly. You may find many articles about it online. One of them is my previous article Spring Boot Best Practices For…
Timeouts and Retries In Spring Cloud Gateway
In this article I'm going to describe two features of Spring Cloud Gateway: retrying based on GatewayFilter pattern and timeout handling based on a global configuration. In some previous articles…
Microservices API Documentation with Springdoc OpenAPI
I have already written about documentation for microservices more than two years ago in my article Microservices API Documentation with Swagger2. In that case, I used project SpringFox for auto-generating…
Spring Boot Admin on Kubernetes
The main goal of this article is to show how to monitor Spring Boot applications running on Kubernetes with Spring Boot Admin. I have already written about Spring Boot Admin…
Local Java Development on Kubernetes
There are many tools, which may simplify your local Java development on Kubernetes. For Java applications you may also take an advantage of integration between popular runtime frameworks and Kubernetes.…
Hazelcast with Spring Boot on Kubernetes
Hazelcast is the leading in-memory data grid (IMDG) solution. The main idea behind IMDG is to distribute data across many nodes inside a cluster. Therefore, it seems to be an…
A Magic Around Spring Boot Auto Configuration
Auto-configuration is probably one of the most important reasons you would decide to use such frameworks like Spring Boot. Thanks to that feature, it is usually enough just to include…