Conquering Distance: Federated Service Discovery with Spring Cloud and Consul
Microservices excel at breaking down monolithic applications into smaller, manageable units. But as your system expands across multiple data centers or cloud providers, a new challenge emerges: how do services…
Lombok: Annotations That Do the Heavy Lifting
If you’re a Java developer who’s tired of writing repetitive boilerplate code, Lombok is your new best friend. This clever library uses annotations to automatically generate common code elements, making…
ListUtils.size()
Simple yet handy method for your ListUtils class. Handle if null, and return the number of elements in the list. Effective and simple.
List Intersection, Union, & Unique
Ever have two lists that you need to pull the unique elements from? Or need to pull the elements in both? Here is a ListUtils class for doing just those…
Mastering CircuitBreaker in Spring Cloud: A Comprehensive Guide
Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker provides an elegant way to handle failures in distributed systems by implementing the circuit breaker pattern. This pattern prevents cascading failures and improves application resilience by…
Spring Expression Language (SpEL): Dynamic Power for Your Applications
Spring Expression Language (SpEL) is a powerful tool in the Spring framework that allows you to write expressions that can be evaluated dynamically at runtime. Think of it as a…
Pipeline Switches
One of the things that make pipelines attract is the ability to create switches. Now my question to you is what if it isn’t the data your processing that should…