Blockchain is one of the buzzwords in the IT world during some last months. This term is related to cryptocurrencies, and was created together with Bitcoins. It is decentralized, immutable…
Piotr's TechBlog
Java, Spring, Kotlin, microservices, Kubernetes, containers
Author: piotr.minkowski
Building and testing message-driven microservices using Spring Cloud Stream
In this article, you will learn how to improve automated testing of message-driven microservices with Spring Cloud Stream. Spring Boot and Spring Cloud give you a great opportunity to build…
Local Continuous Delivery Environment with Docker and Jenkins
In this article I'm going to show you how to set up a continuous delivery environment for building Docker images of our Java applications on the local machine. Our environment…
Managing Spring Boot apps locally with Trampoline
Today I came across an interesting solution for managing Spring Boot applications locally - Trampoline. It is rather a simple product, that provides a web console allowing you to start,…
Testing microservices on OpenShift using Arquillian Cube
I had a touch with the Arquillian framework for the first time when I was building the automated end-to-end tests for JavaEE based applications. At that time testing applications deployed…
Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot Microservices
How many of you have never encountered a crash or a failure of your systems in a production environment? Certainly, each one of you, sooner or later, has experienced it.…
Secure Discovery with Spring Cloud Netflix Eureka
Building a standard, not secure discovery mechanism with Spring Cloud Netflix Eureka is rather an easy thing to do. The same solution built over secure SSL communication between discovery client…
Quick guide to deploying Java apps on OpenShift
In this article, I'm going to show you how to deploy your Java applications on OpenShift (Minishift), and connect them with other services running there. We will also learn how…
Exporting metrics to InfluxDB and Prometheus using Spring Boot Actuator
Spring Boot Actuator is one of the most modified projects after the release of Spring Boot 2. It has been through major improvements, which aimed to simplify customization and include…
Microservices traffic management using Istio on Kubernetes
I have already described a simple example of route configuration between two microservices deployed on Kubernetes in one of my previous articles: Service Mesh with Istio on Kubernetes in 5…
New Book Published
My latest book Hands-On Java with Kubernetes is now available on Leanpub!
