TestContainers and Spring Boot

TestContainers is just awesome! It provides a very convenient way to start up and CLEANLY tear down docker containers in…

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Spring Cloud Gateway – Configuring a simple route

Spring Cloud Gateway can be considered a successor to the Spring Cloud Netflix Zuul project and helps in implementing a Gateway pattern…

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Kotlin and JUnit 5 @BeforeAll

Introduction In Kotlin, classes do not have static methods. A Java equivalent semantic can be provided to callers using the concept of…

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Spring Boot 2 native approach to SSO with OAuth 2/OpenID Connect

This post is the final part of a 3 post series exploring ways to enable SSO with an OAuth2 provider…

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Spring Boot 2 Applications and OAuth 2 – Legacy Approach

This post is the second part of a 3 post series exploring ways to enable SSO with an OAuth2 provider…

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Spring Boot 2 Applications and OAuth 2 – Setting up an Authorization Server

This will be a 3 post series exploring ways to enable SSO with an OAuth2 provider for Spring Boot 2 based…

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Kotlin – Reified type parameters sample

This post walks through a sample that demonstrates Kotlin’s ability to cleverly reify generic type parameters. So consider first a world…

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Spring Based Application – Migrating to Junit 5

This is a quick write-up on migrating a Gradle based Spring Boot app from Junit 4 to the shiny new…

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Kotlin – Tuple type

It is very simple to write a Tuple type with the expressiveness of Kotlin. My objective expressed in tests is the following:…

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