One of the reasons you would prefer OpenShift instead of Kubernetes is the simplicity of running new applications. When working with plain Kubernetes you need to provide an already built…
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Java, Spring, Kotlin, microservices, Kubernetes, containers
RabbitMQ Cluster with Consul and Vault
Almost two years ago I wrote an article about RabbitMQ clustering RabbitMQ in cluster. It was one of the first posts on my blog, and it's really hard to believe…
Secure Spring Cloud Microservices with Vault and Nomad
One of the significant topics related to microservices security is managing and protecting sensitive data like tokens, passwords or certificates used by your application. As a developer you probably often…
Microservices with Spring Cloud Alibaba
Some days ago Spring Cloud announced a support for several Alibaba components used for building microservices-based architecture. The project is still under the incubation stage, but there is a plan…
Reactive programming with Project Reactor
If you are building reactive microservices you would probably have to merge data streams from different source APIs into a single result stream. It inspired me to create this article…
Introduction to Reactive APIs with Postgres, R2DBC, Spring Data JDBC and Spring WebFlux
There are pretty many technologies listed in the title of this article. Spring WebFlux has been introduced with Spring 5 and Spring Boot 2 as a project for building reactive-stack…
Kotlin Microservices with Ktor
Ktor is a framework for building asynchronous applications on the server and client side. It is fully written in Kotlin. The main goal of Ktor is to provide an end-to-end…
5 Things You Will Like in Kotlin as a Java Developer
In this article I’m going to compare a few selected features: Kotlin vs Java. Kotlin language is gaining more and more popularity recently. It is widely used no longer just…
Running Jenkins Server with Configuration-As-Code
Some days ago I came across a newly created Jenkins plugin called Configuration as Code (in short Jenkins casc). This plugin allows you to define Jenkins configuration in a very…
Spring Boot Autoscaler
One of more important reasons we are deciding to use such tools like Kubernetes, Pivotal Cloud Foundry or HashiCorp’s Nomad is the availability of auto-scaling our applications. Of course those…
New Book Published
My latest book Hands-On Java with Kubernetes is now available on Leanpub!
