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Java

Monitoring with Micrometer, Prometheus and Grafana

With Spring boot 2.0, the support for Micrometer made monitoring a lot easier. In this tutorial we'll see how we can use it with Grafana and Prometheus.

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Containerizing your Spring boot application with Docker

The world of DevOps is here. In this tutorial I'll be writing a Spring application and wrap it inside Docker containers.

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JavaScript

Using WebSockets with Angular

In this tutorial we'll explore how we can use WebSockets with Angular and how to properly create RxJS observables from them.

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Java

Using WebSockets with Spring boot

With WebSockets we can have a two-way server-client communication. Today we'll explore how you can benefit from WebSockets in a CRUD application.

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2018: A year in review

As usual, the beginning of a new year is a good time to reflect on the previous year. For me, that meant the return of writing more blogposts, so I'm quite satisfied. Anyhow, let's recap some important analytics!

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JavaScript

Using Jest to test your Node.js application

Jest is a testing framework developed by Facebook. In this tutorial I'll demonstrate the features of Jest while testing a small Node.js application.

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JavaScript

Testing your Node.js application with tape

In this tutorial I'll discover the features of tape combined with Sinon.js while writing unit tests for a simple Node.js application.

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Testing your Node.js application with AVA

In this tutorial I'll use AVA together with Sinon.js to test my Node.js application and summarize the good and the bad parts that come with it.

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JavaScript

Progressive Web Apps with Angular CLI

One of the buzzwords of Google nowadays is Progressive Web Apps or shortly PWA's. In this tutorial we'll learn what progressive webapps exactly are. Additionally we'll see how we can use them and how we can integrate it with Angular and Angular CLI.

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Java

Generating documentation for your REST API with Spring REST Docs

When writing integration tests for your Spring application, Spring REST Docs might be useful to automatically generate examples for your documentation.

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