Eureka and Consul – Service Discovery Tools

Two common service discovery tools that you might have implemented in a Spring Boot microservice application are Eureka and Consul. Here’s a brief overview of each, along with the necessary configurations for Spring Boot and Kubernetes (K8s). 1. EurekaEureka is...

September 4, 2024

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Understanding @Primary in Spring

If you read my post about the @Qualifier annotation, you have noticed that defining two beans of the same type can be a challenge. By distinguishing it with a qualifier name, @Qualifier helps Spring determine which bean to inject. The...

June 21, 2024

3 Ways to Use the @Lazy Annotation in Spring

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3 Ways to Use the @Lazy Annotation in Spring

Does your Spring application take too long to start? Maybe this annotation could help you. This annotation indicates to Spring that a bean needs to be lazily initiated. Spring will not create this bean at the start of the application....

June 12, 2024

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Java's own EJB and Spring framework

In the world of Java there are lot of possibilities. Those possibilities range from game development to cloud-based applications, server-side apps to Internet of Things and machine learning and more. Especially in the world of server-side enterprise application development, Enterprise...

April 14, 2024

“Exception opening socket” and “connect timed out” – How to connect Spring Boot to MongoDB on Remote Server

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“Exception opening socket” and “connect timed out” – How to connect Spring Boot to MongoDB on Remote Server

Hey there, fellow devs! In this blog, you will only see my love for databases and servers, all backend cravings So, for a heavy introduction, I am imagining that you have set up a Spring Boot application with MongoDB. When...

April 9, 2024

A Ride Through Optimising Legacy Spring Boot Services For High Throughput

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A Ride Through Optimising Legacy Spring Boot Services For High Throughput

A Ride Through Optimising Legacy Spring Boot Services For High Throughput Oops! Did I fix it or screw it up for real? Even though we could easily scale this system up either vertically and/or horizontally as desired and the load...

March 24, 2024

Error handling in Spring web using RFC-9457 specification

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Error handling in Spring web using RFC-9457 specification

Introduction If you have ever created a RESTful API using Spring web, you probably know that handling error responses is a crucial part of the API design. In most cases, we don’t just need to return a simple error message...

March 21, 2024

Building Your First AI-Powered Backend in Kotlin: Step-by-Step

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Building Your First AI-Powered Backend in Kotlin: Step-by-Step

In the ever-evolving world of software development, the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and modern programming languages is opening up unprecedented opportunities. Kotlin, with its concise syntax and interoperability with Java, emerges as a powerful language for backend development. When...

March 20, 2024

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Debugging Using JMX Revisited

Debugging effectively requires a nuanced approach, similar to using tongs that tightly grip the problem from both sides. While low-level tools have their place in system-level service debugging, today’s focus shifts towards a more sophisticated segment of the development stack:...

March 5, 2024

Consuming and Testing third party API's using Spring Webclient

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Consuming and Testing third party API's using Spring Webclient

Introduction More often than not developer’s build and call API’s. Therefore it’s guaranteed that you are going to have to build or consume an API sometime in your day to day development. In this article I will show you how...

February 19, 2024

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