Spring Boot

Sending HTTP requests with Spring WebClient

In Spring 5, Spring gained a reactive web framework: Spring WebFlux. This is designed to co-exist alongside the existing Spring Web MVC APIs, but to add support for non-blocking designs.

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Getting Started With AWS SQS and Spring Cloud

Spring Cloud is a suite of projects containing many of the services required to make an application cloud-native by conforming to the 12-Factor principles.

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Exploring a Spring Boot App with Actuator and jq

Spring Boot Actuator helps us monitor and manage our applications in production. It exposes endpoints that provide health, metrics, and other information about the running application.

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Don’t Use the @Profile Annotation in a Spring Boot App!

With profiles, Spring (Boot) provides a very powerful feature to configure our applications. Spring also offers the @Profile annotation to add beans to the application context only when a certain profile is active.

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Getting Started with AWS S3 and Spring Boot

In this article, we are going to explore AWS' Simple Storage Service (S3) together with Spring Boot to build a custom file-sharing application (just like in the good old days before Google Drive, Dropbox & co).

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Handling Cookies with Spring Boot and the Servlet API

This article is about cookies and different ways we can implement them in Spring Boot. We are going to have a short overview of what cookies are, how they work, and how we can handle them using the Servlet API and Spring Boot.

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