If you develop a Spring Boot application and are using Gradle, you have already used the Spring Boot Gradle plugin. It serves several different purposes such as packaging your project…
If you have worked a while with jUnit you may have seen jUnit Rules. Simply put, a field in a test class annotated with @Rule is a class that lets…
I have written about Spring's support for web response error handling a few times before (e.g. about custom error responses and how they can be generalized). This time, we will…
It is not unusual that your web service needs to communicate with another web service in order to serve its clients. In the old days, that would imply that an…
A big part of the DevOps responsibilities is to monitor and maintain the health of running servers. If a production server goes down, appropriate actions must be undertaken to bring…
Spring Boot brings about some welcome defaults configurations that significantly decreases the development time of Spring projects. It also has some useful additions when it comes to simplified integration testing.…