Category: Spring Boot

Using Spring Boot is the most popular way of building microservices in the JVM world. In this category, I write about everything that relates to this amazing framework.

Spring Data – Microservices Data Companion

Spring Data is one of the flagship projects of the Spring ecosystem. If you need to work with data- be it SQL, non-SQL, using map-reduce or other, Spring Data most likely has you covered. In this article, I will introduce the Spring Data project and explain how it makes writing microservices easier. Continue reading “Spring Data – Microservices Data Companion”

Spring’s WebFlux / Reactor Parallelism and Backpressure

Spring Boot 2.0 (and Spring 5) introduced WebFlux as a way to build reactive Microservices. WebFlux is built using Reactor, which introduces completely new ideas to Spring Boot parallelism. Backpressure, Schedulers, and Parallel Flux are a few concepts that we will look at closer in order to understand how to make the most of our reactive services. Continue reading “Spring’s WebFlux / Reactor Parallelism and Backpressure”

WebFlux and servicing client requests – how does it work?

I have previously written about Getting Reactive with Spring Boot 2.0 and Reactor, where I have given an introduction to reactive programming in Spring Boot. In this article, I will further explore WebFlux and the ways it impacts servicing client requests- what happens when you return a Flux<>? Continue reading “WebFlux and servicing client requests – how does it work?”

Getting Reactive with Spring Boot 2.0 and Reactor

Reactive programming is gaining a rapid popularity in the JVM community. With Java 9 natively embracing the Reactive Streams and Spring Boot 2.0 including the WebFlux, it is hard to argue with this statement. Spring uses Reactor for its own reactive support and WebFlux relies on that support. In this article, I will show you how to get into reactive programming with Reactor and Spring Boot 2.0. Continue reading “Getting Reactive with Spring Boot 2.0 and Reactor”

Introduction to Concurrency in Spring Boot

When building services with Spring Boot we have to deal with concurrency. There is this misconception that because of using Servlets and getting a new Thread allocated per request there is no need to think about concurrency. In this article, I will give some practical advice on dealing with multi-threading in Spring Boot and how to avoid problems it can create. Continue reading “Introduction to Concurrency in Spring Boot”

Introducing JSON-B with Spring Boot 2.0

JSON Binding (JSON-B) is the new Java EE specification for converting JSON messages to Java Objects and back. JSON is used everywhere and so far we had two main ways of dealing with JSON conversion in Java- using either Jackson or GSON. With the introduction of JSON-B, we have a standard way of handling this conversion. In this article, we will see how Spring Boot 2.0 supports JSON-B, how easy it is to use it and how does it compare with the other options. Continue reading “Introducing JSON-B with Spring Boot 2.0”

What you need to know about Spring Boot 2.0 (RC1)

With Spring Boot 2.0 release just around the corner (at the time of writing we have RC1) it is important to see what changes it brings. Even if you are not planning to migrate shortly, it is good to see what is new in this biggest Spring Boot release since the 1.0 version. In this blog post I won’t go through every detail, but cover the most important things. Continue reading “What you need to know about Spring Boot 2.0 (RC1)”