Recently, I have come across some articles and mentions about Spring REST Docs, where it has been presented as a better alternative to traditional Swagger docs. Until now, I was…
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Continuous Integration with Jenkins, Artifactory and Spring Cloud Contract
Consumer Driven Contract (CDC) testing is one of the methods that allows you to verify integration between applications within your system. The number of such interactions may be really large…
Introduction to Blockchain with Java using Ethereum, web3j and Spring Boot
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…
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…