How-To: Spring Boot 2 Web Application with Multiple Mongo Repositories and Kotlin

First of all, a disclaimer: if you’re writing a microservice (which everyone does now right?) and want it to be…

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How to train a dragon, or can a software developer become an SRE — part 1

Preface This is a story about a rather unusual experiment, which our company ran with me as a (willing) guinea…

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PlantUML: Diagrams as Code

Everything “as code” is all the rage now. What can we represent as code except for the programs? First of…

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Spring State Machine: what is it and do you need it?

State machine is a model of computation based on the finite states, as Wikipedia very obligingly says. Usually there are…

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Local type inference in Java 10, or If it quacks like a duck

Quite recently, Oracle adopted a new strategy of releasing a new language version every six months. The strategy assumes that…

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Lombok, AutoValue and Immutables, or How to write less and better code returns

In the previous post about Lombok library, I have described a library that helps to deal with boilerplate code in…

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How to write less and better code, or Project Lombok

I have long intended to write about Project Lombok, so much so that I am probably doing it when every…

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Call on me, or Asynchronous REST

This article is a very simple example of a working asynchronous REST application, made with Spring Boot + Java 8.…

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Spring Retry, because Winter is coming

OK, this is actually not about the winter, which as we all know has already come. It is about Spring…

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