Microservices Resources

Kafka Producer Architecture - Picking the Partition of Records

This article covers Kafka Producer Architecture, including how a partition is chosen, producer cadence, partitioning strategies, and consumers.

August 18, 2017

by Jean-Paul Azar

· 69,680 Views · 12 Likes

Kafka Topic Architecture - Replication, Failover, and Parallel Processing

Digging deeper into Kafka architecture, this article covers the details of replication, failover, and parallel processing in this data pipeline software.

August 17, 2017

by Jean-Paul Azar

· 98,212 Views · 29 Likes

An Introduction to Domain Driven Design and Its Benefits

If your team is looking to implement aspects of DDD, then read on for a great overview of the practice and how it helps dev teams.

August 16, 2017

by Lea Maya Karam

· 30,442 Views · 10 Likes

Spring Boot REST API Unit Testing With JUnit

In this tutorial, we go through the process of setting up tests to make sure your API performs as it should, using an open source technology.

August 16, 2017

by Grigor Avagyan

· 118,426 Views · 23 Likes

Microservices Tutorial: Ribbon as a Load Balancer

Learn how to set up Ribbon as a load balancer for microservices with a little background on the different types of load balancing.

August 15, 2017

by Shaamik Mitraa

· 143,714 Views · 27 Likes

Solving a Clustering Problem Using the k-Means Algorithm With Oracle

Clustering algorithms let machines group data points or items into groups with similar characteristics. See how to use the k-means algorithm with Oracle to do clustering.

August 15, 2017

by Emrah Mete

· 13,359 Views · 7 Likes

Implementing JWT Authentication on Spring Boot APIs

In this article, we take a look at a few simple ways you can shore up the security of your website or app using Spring Boot.

August 14, 2017

by Bruno Krebs

· 158,378 Views · 37 Likes

Consumer-Driven Contracts With Pact, Feign, and Spring Data REST

Get an introduction to the concept of consumer-driven API contracts, and how to implement this with Pact, Spring Boot, and an API consumer and provider.

August 14, 2017

by Tom Hombergs

· 16,171 Views · 1 Like

5 Docker Logging Best Practices

Microservices and containers mesh well, but they make logging a challenge. Take these considerations in mind when setting up your monitoring.

August 12, 2017

by Jeffrey Walker

· 25,355 Views · 6 Likes

Setting Up JAX-RS for Equinox OSGI

Developing microservices and RESTful applications in Java? See how JAX-RS, OSGI, and the Equinox framework can help you master them.

August 11, 2017

by Kees Pieters

· 11,678 Views · 3 Likes

Faster PostgreSQL Counting

Analyze the techniques available for different optimization situations in PostgreSQL and see how to parallelize counts in a distributed database.

August 11, 2017

by Joe Nelson

· 29,645 Views · 5 Likes

JAX-RS vs. Spring for REST Endpoints

Let's compare JAX-RS and Spring when working with REST endpoints, including using them separately and together, and a handy cheat sheet.

Updated August 11, 2017

by Brian Demers

· 116,227 Views · 35 Likes

How to Automatically Document API Endpoints via Swagger

No one likes doing documentation. Here's a way for developers to automate generation of API endpoint documentation using Swagger.

August 11, 2017

by Grigor Avagyan

· 19,340 Views · 4 Likes

Docker Commands for Development to Deployment

This article lists and explains all the commands needed for a Docker container, from developing the image to deployment.

Updated August 10, 2017

by Saravanan Subramanian

· 23,557 Views · 31 Likes

Kafka Producer in Java

This detailed tutorial will help you create a simple Kafka producer, which allows you to publish records to the Kafka cluster.

August 10, 2017

by Jean-Paul Azar

· 108,675 Views · 14 Likes

Pagination in Spring Boot Applications

Here we examine both static and dynamic pagination, and the consideration for each, for your web apps using Spring Boot and Spring Data.

Updated August 10, 2017

by Soroush Nejad

· 329,302 Views · 14 Likes

Achieving Fault Tolerance With Resilience4j

Learn how Resilience4j, a fault tolerance library, can help design each layer of your application to handle errors and operate through failures.

August 9, 2017

by Bohdan Storozhuk

· 36,095 Views · 18 Likes

Mapping JPA in Your Database With the Time API

Throughout application development, you need to make CRUD operations on our stored data. Postgres and the Time API can help you map JPA in your database.

August 9, 2017

by Tomasz J-ski

· 48,083 Views · 5 Likes

Kafka Architecture

Learn about the architecture and functionality of Kafka, the software for building real-time streaming data pipelines, in this comprehensive primer.

August 9, 2017

by Jean-Paul Azar

· 136,674 Views · 111 Likes

Introduction to JPA Using Spring Boot Data

Object relational impedance mismatch involves databases with many-to-many relationships that comparatively have mismatched data. Read on a more in-depth introduction!

August 8, 2017

by Ranga Karanam

· 239,055 Views · 22 Likes

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