Load Balancing Your Microservices: Configuring Spring Cloud Gateway with Spring Discovery Server
In a microservices architecture, ensuring high availability and distributing traffic evenly across multiple instances of a service is paramount. Spring Cloud Gateway, when integrated with a Spring Discovery Server (like…
The S3 Local Dev Trick: Using MinIO to Simplify Cloud-Native Developmen
As a software architect building cloud-native solutions, you know that working with cloud services like AWS S3 can be a bit tricky in a local development environment. You don’t want…
Pattern Matching for instanceof
Java 16 introduced a new feature called “Pattern Matching for instanceof” which simplifies the process of casting objects in Java. This feature improves the readability and safety of code that…
Resilient Gateways: Implementing Circuit Breakers for Spring Data REST Services with Spring Cloud Gateway
In a microservice architecture, services inevitably encounter transient failures – network hiccups, temporary overload, or slow responses from dependencies. Without proper handling, these failures can cascade, leading to a degraded…
Master the Art of Conditional Beans in Spring with Annotation
In the dynamic world of Spring applications, managing which beans are active at runtime, how they are named, and how to precisely inject them is crucial. Spring offers a suite…
Customizing Reads: Triggering Events on GET Requests with Spring Data REST
While Spring Data REST excels at generating CRUD endpoints, the standard life cycle events we’ve discussed primarily revolve around data modification (Create, Update, Delete). You might encounter scenarios where you…
NullPointerExcepiton enhancements
The NullPointerException is a common exception in Java that occurs when a null reference is dereferenced. This exception can make debugging difficult, as it does not provide any information about…