Autoscaling based on the custom metrics is one of the features that may convince you to run your Spring Boot application on Kubernetes. By default, horizontal pod autoscaling can scale…
Spring Boot Autoscaling on Kubernetes
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Category: Spring Boot
Guide to building Spring Boot library
In this article, I'm going to show you how to create and share your own custom Spring Boot library. If you decide to build such a product you should follow…
An Advanced Guide to GraphQL with Spring Boot
In this guide I’m going to discuss some more advanced topics related to GraphQL and databases, like filtering or relationship fetching. Of course, before proceeding to the more advanced issues…
Spring Boot Library for integration with Istio
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…
Simplify development on Kubernetes with Dekorate, Skaffold and Spring Boot
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…
Circuit breaker and retries on Kubernetes with Istio and Spring Boot
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…
Service mesh on Kubernetes with Istio and Spring Boot
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…
A Deep Dive Into Spring Cloud Load Balancer
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…
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…
Spring Boot Best Practices for Microservices
In this article I’m going to propose my list of “golden rules” for building Spring Boot applications, which are a part of a microservices-based system. I’m basing on my experience…