👋 Hello, I'm Dimitri
I love tinkering with code, and I occasionally write and talk about it.

Spring Boot introduced its own starter for OpenTelemetry in Spring Boot v4.0.0. This makes it easier to send logs, metrics and traces to any OpenTelemetry-backend. In this blogpost, we'll explore how to use this new starter.

Spring Retry is no more... or at least not as a separate library. Instead of that, you can now utilize retry-related functionality within Spring Core! Which functionality? That's what this blogpost is all about.

Spring Boot 4 includes an upgrade to Jackson 3. In this blogpost I'll talk about some of the big changes in Jackson 3.

Spring Boot Actuator's liveness and readiness probes have been enabled by default since Spring Boot 4. What better time could there be to explore the possibilities of these probes?

Spring Security 7 made it possible to easily set up Multi-Factor Authentication within your applications. This allows you to combine any of the authentication methods Spring provides and create an even more secure setup.

Spring has a new way of registering beans programmatically called the BeanRegistrar. In this tutorial I'll talk about how and when to use it.

Spring Boot 4 introduces us to a new testing utility called RestTestClient. RestTestClient provides a uniform experience when testing your API's regardless of whether you want to write a unit test, integration test or end-to-end test.

Say goodbye to manual versioning your REST API's and hello to the new API versioning within the Spring framework.

WebClient, RestClient and JdbcClient. Over the past few years, Spring has been introducing new fluent clients in stead of the older clients that relied on method overloads (RestTemplate and JdbcTemplate). Spring 7 adds a new one to this list, by introducing us the new JmsClient!

Spring Security v7 made configuring CSRF protection for Single Page Applications a lot easier. In this blogpost I'll talk about the history and the improvements!