Posts within the Java category

Indexing documents is quite easy with Apache Solr and Tika. In this tutorial, I'll demonstrate how to configure both and to run them within a Docker container.

Forget REST, get started with GraphQL! In this tutorial I'll be using GrapQL mutations with Spring boot to create a next level API.

Forget REST, start with GraphQL! In this tutorial I'll show you what the benefits are of GraphQL and how you can use GraphQL with Spring boot to create even better APIs.

Spring boot comes with many starters that do most of the work for you. The nice thing is that you can also write your own Spring boot starters as well, and in this tutorial, we'll figure out what we need to do to make our own Spring boot starter.

While monitoring is essential, there are various tools on the market to do this. In this tutorial I'll be using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor an existing Spring boot application.

Spring boot has several integrations available for Netflix components such as Zuul. In this tutorial I'll demonstrate how Zuul can be used to handle several cross-cutting concerns on a network-based level, such as CORS headers and handling multipart requests.

JWT is a popular type of token. In this tutorial I'll show you how to integrate a JWT authentication mechanism with Spring, and within a microservice oriented architecture.

Explore the new reactive features of Spring boot 2.0 and Spring 5 with me by writing a web crawler using Webflux and reactive MongoDB.

Decentralized configuration on the filesystem has its flawed. But what if you could provide configuration as a microservice with Git?

What happens when something fails in an application and it keeps failing? In this article I'll show you how you can have more control using Hystrix.