Why do we need to version our microservices? Microservices are basically APIs. These are consumed by the clients. We should be able to evolve them without any impact to the clients. We should not force the clients to use the new changes in services and more importantly this should not break the clients. There must… Continue reading Microservice versioning
After we have written the code and compile it, the next step is to build and deploy it somewhere. We can go two ways here: build many times the code, deploy it many times build once the code, deploy it many times Build many This is the way many of you are familiar with, as… Continue reading Build once vs build many
There are currently 4 branching strategies and with this post you should be able to know when to use them. In which situations one is more appropriate than the other? Without further ado, let's jump into them. Centralized strategy This is suitable for teams that are migrating from old style subversion to git. You heard… Continue reading Which git strategy should I use?
What is stubbing? What is verifying? Do we need both? If we look into the java docs for Mockito.when() (stubbing) and Mockito.verify() (verifying behavior) we see something strange that is common to both: Although it is possible to verify a stubbed invocation, usually it's just redundant. Well, we known that the difference between stubs and… Continue reading Are you verifying your stubs?
What has changed? Is it still backwards compatible? Is it hard to migrate? These are some of the questions I want to answer with this post. Junit 5 is a bundle of 3 modules: platform, a platform for developing testing frameworks jupiter, the new programming model and extension model vintage, for running Junit 3 and… Continue reading Junit 5
Microservices are hard. Complexity is high. Securing microservices is even harder and even more complex. Where do we start? The first words that come to my mind are authentication and authorization. Firewall. Trust. Session. Tokens. We need to secure our applications and we need to secure our containers. Securing applications We can build a SSO… Continue reading Securing microservices
I saw this by mistake(surely this is not new for some of you). I was looking in some repo, I think it was spring-data-rest or something similar and I was like: What the hell is this? You don't need to write getters and setters for your class members! Suddenly it's enough to have @Getter @Setter… Continue reading Project Lombok
