There are some things I really like in Spring Boot, and one of them is an externalized configuration. Spring Boot allows you to configure your application in many ways. You…
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Author: piotr.minkowski
Introduction to Spring Data Redis
Redis is an in-memory data structure store with optional durability, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Currently, it is the most most popular tool in the key/value stores…
Kotlin Microservices with Micronaut, Spring Cloud and JPA
Micronaut Framework provides support for Kotlin built upon Kapt compiler plugin. It also implements the most popular cloud-native patterns like distributed configuration, service discovery, and client-side load balancing. These features…
Microservices Integration Tests with Hoverfly and Testcontainers
Building good integration tests of a system consisting of several microservices may be quite a challenge. Today I’m going to show you how to use such tools like Hoverfly and…
Testing Spring Boot Integration with Vault and Postgres using Testcontainers Framework
I have already written many articles, where I was using Docker containers for running some third-party solutions integrated with my sample applications. Building integration tests for such applications may not…
Guide to Microservices with Micronaut and Consul
Micronaut framework has been introduced as an alternative to Spring Boot for building microservices using such tools as Consul. At first glance, it is very similar to Spring. It also…
Kotlin Microservice with Spring Boot
In this tutorial I will show you step-by-step how to implement Spring Boot Kotlin microservices. You may find many examples of microservices built with Spring Boot on my blog, but…
Running Java Microservices on OpenShift using Source-2-Image
One of the reasons you would prefer OpenShift instead of Kubernetes is the simplicity of running new applications. When working with plain Kubernetes you need to provide an already built…
RabbitMQ Cluster with Consul and Vault
Almost two years ago I wrote an article about RabbitMQ clustering RabbitMQ in cluster. It was one of the first posts on my blog, and it's really hard to believe…
Secure Spring Cloud Microservices with Vault and Nomad
One of the significant topics related to microservices security is managing and protecting sensitive data like tokens, passwords or certificates used by your application. As a developer you probably often…