This page was converted from my old blog and hasn't been reviewed. If you see an error please let me know in the comments. I can never remember how to use CURL. Whenever I want to send some data I end up having to use google or try and dig through the terrible man pages. LMGTFY Today I leanred about a new tool called …

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One of the tenants of Twelve Factor application design is the concept of externalizing configuration and secrets. In the past, you may have had your configuration externalized to a resource bundle or bundled directly into your application artifact. The problem with externalized resource bundles is that they tend to …

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This page was converted from my old blog and hasn't been reviewed. If you see an error please let me know in the comments. What it is The Spring Initializer is one of the first places to go when starting a new Spring project as it greatly simplifies the process of starting a new Spring project. SpringIntializer When …

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This page was converted from my old blog and hasn't been reviewed. If you see an error please let me know in the comments. There are some recommended architectural patterns for applying Microservice concepts. One of these patterns is the API Gateway. Source: Comparing API Gateway Performances: NGINX vs. ZUUL vs. Spring …

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This page was converted from my old blog and hasn't been reviewed. If you see an error please let me know in the comments. Cloud SQL is a hosted SQL database similar to Amazon RDS for either Mysql or Postgres databases. It supports automated management including backup and deployment. Since the database is created via …

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How to profile apps on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. VisualVM to the rescue! This page was converted from my old blog and hasn't been reviewed. If you see an error please let me know in the comments. Source: Diagnosing performance issues with Java legacy apps on Pivotal Cloud Foundry · Pivotal Engineering Journal

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Demonstrating Event Sourcing with various methods using Kafka, RabbitMQ and JPA This page was converted from my old blog and hasn't been reviewed. If you see an error please let me know in the comments. Source: Event Sourcing with Kafka, RabbitMQ and JPA · Pivotal Engineering Journal

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This page was converted from my old blog and hasn't been reviewed. If you see an error please let me know in the comments. WordPress on Kubernetes Recently I posted about creating a highly available WordPress deployment using Amazon Web Services. The focus was using Terraform and Docker to automate the deployment. With …

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This page was converted from my old blog and hasn't been reviewed. If you see an error please let me know in the comments. Co-authored by Jeffrey Ellin, Solutions Architect, Qubole. Serverless architecture allows you to execute code without requiring the traditional cost of compute resources. Each component of your… …

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This page was converted from my old blog and hasn't been reviewed. If you see an error please let me know in the comments. In the past I have written posts about using infrastructure as code to deploy your web applications in a repeatable and controllable fashion using the concept of infrastructure as code. I will walk …

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