KivaKit Microservices

KivaKit Microservices   KivaKit is designed to make coding microservices faster and easier. In this blog post, we will examine…

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Signaling and waiting for concurrent state changes

Java’s concurrency library (java.util.concurrent) provides a mutual-exclusion (mutex) Lock called ReentrantLock. This lock maintains a queue of threads that are…

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Cloud Build and Gradle/Maven Caching

One of the pain points in all the development projects that I have worked on has been setting up/getting an…

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Kivakit Build

A poor man’s multiple-repository build system Refactoring feature branches across multiple repositories A common use case when working with multiple,…

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KivaKit deployments

KivaKit applications can be configured using the settings api, but there is an easier way to configure an application for…

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From layers to onions and hexagons

In this post we will explore the transition from a classic layered software architecture to a hexagonal architecture. The hexagonal…

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KivaKit resources

A resource is a stream of data that can be opened, read from or written to, and then closed. KivaKit…

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KivaKit command line parsing

The kivakit-commandline module provides the switch and argument parsing used by kivakit-application. Let’s take a look at how this works.…

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Receive Pub/Sub messages to your Spring Application

Pub/Sub is a messaging solution provided by GCP Before we dive into the actual configuration we need to be aware…

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