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…
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GraphQL – The Future of Microservices?
Often, GraphQL is presented as a revolutionary way of designing web APIs in comparison to REST. However, if you would take a closer look at that technology you will see…
Quick Guide to Microservices with Kubernetes, Spring Boot 2 and Docker
Here's the next article in a series of "Quick Guide to...". This time we will discuss and run examples of Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes. The structure of that article…
Intro to Blockchain with Ethereum, Web3j and Spring Boot: Smart Contracts
I have already provided a quick introduction to building Spring Boot applications with Ethereum and web3j in one of my latest articles Introduction to Blockchain with Java using Ethereum, web3j…
Spring REST Docs versus SpringFox Swagger for API documentation
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…
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…
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,…
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.…