Architecting Spring Boot 4 with Official Spring gRPC Support
For years, the Spring community relied on excellent third-party starters (like net.devh) to bridge the gap between Spring Boot and gRPC. With the evolution of Spring Boot 4 and the…
Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker with Feign Client: A Fallback Strategy
Microservices often rely on each other, but what happens when a service goes down? Enter Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker, a pattern that prevents cascading failures by providing fallback mechanisms when…
Minecraft Functions meets Java
My son has gotten into Minecraft and Star Wars. He wanted the two of us to build the Death Star in Minecraft. That is not a small undertaking. I got…
Geo – Line
One of the simplest shapes we can make is GeoLine. It consists of two GeoLocations the start, and end of the line. The line is the simplest of shapes but…
ListUtils.safe()
Sometimes you need to guarantee a list is safe to use. A simple method can make sure your safe to use the list, or have an empty list that would…
Secure Your Secrets: Encrypting Values with Spring Cloud Config
In the world of microservices, Spring Cloud Config provides a centralized way to manage externalized configurations for your applications. But what about sensitive data like database passwords or API keys?…
Geo – Location
So we have Latitude and Longitude, putting those together we have a location now. That is simple enough, but once we have a location, we can use that to derive…