Sensible Feign client configuration,Feign clients make it easy to write restful client based on the Spring annotations you already know. It also includes integrations with loads of...

Simple RocksDB with Java - Crash Course,In this post, we are going to implement a very simple client persistence key-value store with RocksDB. The idea is to have the simplest poss...

dev.to year in review (2019),... well, not exactly a year since I posted my first blog in Sep 2019 (shortly after joining the Azure Advocates team!) But, since then its been a stea...

Top 10 Courses to Learn Spring Boot and Microservices for Java Programmers,Disclosure: This post includes affiliate links; I may receive compensation if you purchase products or se...

Generate HTML documentation from Markdown with Maven Site plugin,Preparing readable documentation, that is easy to maintain is not a trivial task and not a favourite one for most d...

jOOQ - a short guide,You can use this guide to understand what jOOQ is, how to get started with it quickly and how jOOQ integrates with or compares to libraries like Spring and Hib...

Intro to Reactive Functional Programming,Excerpts from my courses: https://linkedin-learning.pxf.io/reactive-java-8 and https://linkedin-learning.pxf.io/full-stack-reactive-app-jav...

9 Reasons to Use Kotlin Over Java for Android Development,It's a big decision to make by moving from Java to Kotlin as your go-to language for your Android-based projects. The bigg...

A quick look at jpackage,With Java 14, we will get back a tool to create native installation archives for our Java applications. While Java on the client unfortunately is not consi...

Java Questions - Top 10 Most Viewed Questions on Stack Overflow,In this course we are going to examine the top 10 most viewed Java question on Stack Overflow since creation of this...

Understanding Comparable and Comparator,Overview: Comparable interface: Create a class implementing the Comparable interface Comparator interface: Create a class implementing of Co...

Use strong encryption and hashing algorithms in Java, Java security best practices (3 Part Series) 1 Configure your Java XML-parsers to prevent XXE 2 Avoid Java serialization 3 Use...