Background Lot of my pet projects have been built using Spring Boot 2.x version. Same might be applicable for all the enterprises and organizations who have been building Microservices based applications for their products / services using Spring Boot. During last year, Spring community made a major version upgrade and …

Background In one of my previous post we saw tangible advantages (w.r.t throughput, latency and resource utilization) of refactoring existing Microservice application from imperative to reactive constructs. So an obvious question that comes to an inquisitive mind - Can we apply Reactive principles to the underlying …

Background In my previous post I tried demonstrating how to implement an optimal and performant REST client using RestTemplate In this article I will be demonstrating similar stuff but by using WebClient. But before we get started, lets try rationalizing Why yet another REST client i.e. WebClient IMO there are 2 …

Background In this contemporary world of enterprise application development, Microservice Architecture has become defacto paradigm. With this new paradigm, an application is going to have myriad set of independent and autonomous (micro)services which will be calling each other. One of the fundamental characteristics of …

Background As software industry is embracing the new Microservice Architecture paradigm, myriad applications have been built with Spring Boot framework. By the time organizations have got its early versions of microservice applications in production, industry has found out newer and better avenues for further …

Background From first part of blog we gathered understanding about basics of Chaos Engineering. Now we will further deep dive to understand how to perform Chaos Engineering with a working example - which to me is going to be quite interesting. First lets start with understanding basics of working example which will be …

Spring Boot helps developers to implement enterprise grade applications which can be pushed to production in no time. Once application gets into production and if we strongly believe in vedic philosophy of Karma :), we are bound to experience Murphy's Law. Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong Considering nature of …

Software engineers have been ardently following Test Driven Development (TDD) as an XP practice for having necessary safety nets. I have even tried covering different schools of TDD with an example in one of my previous posts. Considering recent surge in using Spring Boot for developing Microservice applications, I …

Background As per the current trends, Microservice Architecture has become a common paradigm using which enterprise applications are built. With this paradigm shift, an application is going to have myriad set of independent and autonomous (micro)services. So how does a developer do testing within Microservice …

Considering the extensive usage of Spring Boot for building Cloud Native Architecture, I embarked on the journey of utilizing it in my reference Cloud Native application. When I ran my first application I was literally flabbergasted with the magic Spring Boot does under the hood, using which it camouflages the …