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 …

Now that twenty-twenties i.e. 2020 has just commenced, I just thought to reflect upon the bygone year 2019 as a casual and occasional blogger. This in my opinion will definitely help me to introspect, analyse and thereby identify hits and misses, which eventually will lead me to improve upon my shortcomings / …

In one of my previous post I elaborated basics of JVM memory and also explained how garbage collection works. In this post we will try to understand various types of GC and how to tune and optimize them with a real world example. GC Taxonomy 1. Minor GC When garbage is collected from Young space it is called Minor GC. …

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 …

Human body is vulnerable to lot of diseases. So in order to protect human beings from diseases vaccines have been invented. Vaccines mainly work due to process called 'Hormesis', by which system or organism adapts to harm in order to become stronger. Just as our body is susceptible to diseases and germs, so do our …

Personally speaking, I am of the belief that only way to excel (professionally) is to collaborate and learn from experts. Since I am constantly striving to improve professionally as Software Craftsman, I try my best to exercise available options. One such option is attending some good Technology Conferences - as they …

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 …

Everyone of us as Software Engineers would have experienced memory leaks, OOM errors in our Java/JVM applications? In order to dissect such issues it is extremely important to understand the whats' and hows' of JVM memory and its management. JVM - Memory Management One of the many strengths of the JVM is that it …