This article will teach you how to use Spring Cloud to simplify integration between Spring Boot apps and Azure services. We will also see how to leverage the Azure Spring…
Getting Started with Spring Cloud Azure
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Kubernetes Testing with CircleCI, Kind, and Skaffold
In this article, you will learn how to use tools like Kind or Skaffold to build integration tests on CircleCI for apps running on Kubernetes. Our main goal in this…
Testing Java Apps on Kubernetes with Testkube
In this article, you will learn how to test Java apps on Kubernetes with Testkube automatically. We will build the tests for the typical Spring REST-based app. In the first…
Kafka Tracing with Spring Boot and Open Telemetry
In this article, you will learn how to configure tracing for Kafka producer and consumer with Spring Boot and Open Telemetry. We will use the Micrometer library for sending traces…
Slim Docker Images for Java
In this article, you will learn how to build slim Docker images for your Java apps using Alpine Linux and the jlink tool. We will leverage the latest Java 21…
Apache Kafka on Kubernetes with Strimzi
In this article, you will learn how to install and manage Apache Kafka on Kubernetes with Strimzi. The Strimzi operator lets us declaratively define and configure Kafka clusters, and several…
Guide to Modulith with Spring Boot
This article will teach you how to build modulith with Spring Boot and use the Spring Modulith project features. Modulith is a software architecture pattern that assumes organizing your monolith app…
Handle Traffic Bursts with Ephemeral OpenShift Clusters
This article will teach you how to handle temporary traffic bursts with ephemeral OpenShift clusters provisioned in the public cloud. Such a solution should work in a fully automated way.…
Manage OpenShift with Terraform
This article will teach you how to create and manage OpenShift clusters with Terraform. For the purpose of this exercise, we will run OpenShift on Azure using the managed service…
Introduction to gRPC with Quarkus
In this article, you will learn how to implement and consume gRPC services with Quarkus. Quarkus provides built-in support for gRPC through the extension. We will create a simple app,…