An important step before you begin the implementation of microservices is to configure your development IDE and install a set of tools that simplifies integration with Kubernetes. In this article,…
Development on Kubernetes: IDE & Tools
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Java, Spring, Kotlin, microservices, Kubernetes, containers
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…
Kotlin Coroutines vs Java Threads
There are probably many articles about Kotlin’s coroutines online. That’s why I would like to focus just on showing you the difference between concept over coroutines and threads - a…
Distributed Transactions in Microservices with Spring Boot
When I'm talking about microservices with other people they are often asking me about an approach to distributed transactions. My advice is always the same - try to completely avoid…
Development on Kubernetes with Okteto and Spring Boot
Okteto Platform seems to be an interesting alternative to the other more popular tools that simplify development on Kubernetes. In comparison to the tools like Skaffold or Draft, the idea…
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…
Introduction to event-driven microservices with Spring Cloud Stream
Spring Cloud Stream framework allows us to easily include well-known Spring patterns and best practices to applications while implementing event-driven microservices architecture. It uses the Spring Integration project to provide…
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…
New Book Published
My latest book Hands-On Java with Kubernetes is now available on Leanpub!
