Configuring Kafka Topics with Spring Kafka
Here’s a common scenario, your engineering team decides to use Kafka and they start writing producers, consumers, connectors, streams, you name it. Before long, 6 engineers have manually created 20+ topics in the lower environment ...
Spring Boot / SSL and BadPaddingException
Are you working on getting SSL self signed certificates working with Spring Boot and getting a javax.crypto.BadPaddingException? Hopefully this post will save you some time. I created this post to help remind myself and hopefully ...
Create a Custom Annotation for your JUnit5 ParameterizedTest ArgumentProvider
In my opinion, the best new feature of Junit5 is the addition of parameterized tests. They greatly reduce copy/pasted code and makes it easy to increase your test coverage without unnecessarily increasing the amount of ...
Log your RestTemplate Request and Response without destroying the body
When you’re working with REST services, it can be very useful for debugging to be able to log both the request and the response info. Fortunately, if you’re using the Spring framework’s RestTemplate its fairly ...
Missing Codecs in MongoDB
When upgrading a project’s Mongo driver from 2.13.0 to 3.4.2, we got the following exception: org.bson.codecs.configuration.CodecConfigurationException: can't find a codec for class java.math.BigDecimal. Well it seems that Mongo doesn’t support BigDecimal any longer. There we ...
Handy Gradle Recipes
I’ve been trying to simplify my tools lately – less reliance on Intelij IDEA and using the command line more and more. At times, I feel like my workflow has sped up because of a ...
GraphQL in Spring Boot (Take Two)
When I wrote “Implement a GraphQL Endpoint in a Groovy App” this past July, I had yet to actually use GraphQL anywhere other than a pet project. Well, that has changed and so have my ...
Intro to Reactive Web in Spring 5
One of the biggest features planned for Spring 5, planned for release later this year, is the new Reactive Web extensions. For a long time Spring has had support for asynchronous web requests by suspending ...
Getting Started With Amazon Alexa Development
In the last few years Amazon has been able to capture a significant share of the home assistant market with the help of the Echo product family. Starting with the audio only product line, Dot, Tap, and ...
Exciting things in Spring Boot 2
I looked at the release notes for Spring Boot 2.0.0.M1 not expecting a lot of exciting changes but was surprised by some compelling things. There is the usual “deprecated classes are removed” and “Dependency X ...