Today we will compare two frameworks used for building microservices on the JVM: Spring Boot vs Micronaut. First of them, Spring Boot is currently the most popular and opinionated framework…
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Java, Spring, Kotlin, microservices, Kubernetes, containers
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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…
Spring Boot Autoscaler
One of more important reasons we are deciding to use such tools like Kubernetes, Pivotal Cloud Foundry or HashiCorp’s Nomad is the availability of auto-scaling our applications. Of course those…
Integration tests on OpenShift using Arquillian Cube and Istio
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use the Arquillian Cube OpenShift extension. Building integration tests for applications deployed on Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms seems to be quite a big challenge.…
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…
Generating large PDF files using JasperReports
During the last 'Code Europe' conference in Warsaw appeared many topics related to microservices architecture. Several times I heard the conclusion that the best candidate for separation from the monolith…
Part 2: Creating microservices – monitoring with Spring Cloud Sleuth, ELK and Zipkin
One of the most frequently mentioned challenges related to the creation of microservices-based architecture is monitoring. Each microservice should be run on an environment isolated from the other microservices, so…
New Book Published
My latest book Hands-On Java with Kubernetes is now available on Leanpub!
