Securing your Spring Apps with OAuth 2.0 – Part 1
Security. Arguably one of the most important components of your application, especially if you have to deal with private information and want to restrict access to only authorised parties. It’s …
Error handling with Apache Kafka
Introduction Apache Kafka has become one of the most popular technologies for messaging, streaming and event processing for a while now. However, especially in a microservices architecture, things can go …
Neo4J Meetup – Thinking in graphs
Stress. It eats energy. For the last few months, I’ve been rather busy winding down my responsibilities at the Rabobank, preparing myself for interviews with prospective new clients and finally …
Meetup: GitLab pipelines
Many of us use gitlab in our current project but do not truly understand the basics. For this meetup we decided to investigate how building a pipeline works by building …
Testing with Spring – a Work(shop) in Progress
Even though it’s been several years, I still remember being a Spring newbie very clearly. (2003, me (far right blue sweater) in the computer lab where I wrote my first …
Testing Microservices with WireMock
In this series we will look at how WireMock can help the development and testing of Microservices. The first part will focus on a standalone setup to understand what WireMock …
Spring Boot Admin
While browsing the internet I stumbled upon a nice tool called spring-boot-admin (https://github.com/codecentric/spring-boot-admin). This tool, made by Codecentric, offers a nice overview that gives you access to things like metrics, …