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Why technical experts are often excluded from critical decision-making meetings and strategies for gaining influence. Explores the consequences of leaving system architects out of strategic discussions.
Learn how to sketch your platform's current state, highlighting its key characteristics, issues, and advantages as a software architect
How to test Spring Boot controllers: a practical guide with examples of unit tests and integration tests with and without MockMvc.
A practical example project using Spring Boot and Kafka with multiple consumers and different serialization methods
Common mistakes that growing companies make when scaling their engineering teams and how to avoid them.
The rise of AI coding assistants and what it means for developers, architects, and the future of software engineering.
How the best software architects shape systems without being seen. Exploring the subtle art of technical leadership.
Learn why understanding organizational goals and product vision is essential before jumping into technical solutions, and discover practical tools to clarify objectives.
Discover the essential tools and techniques for software architects to tackle organizational challenges, from stakeholder interviews to architecture forums and decision records.
The first days as a Software Architect can be both exciting and challenging. Learn what to do right after landing in this position, starting with the most important task: talking to people.
The extra chapter for the book's source code update from Spring Boot 2.6 to 2.7 with H2 database fixes and configuration improvements
The extra chapter for the book's source code update from Spring Boot 2.5 to 2.6 and from Spring Cloud 2020 to 2021.0
An extra chapter showing how to update the book's source code from Spring Boot 2.4 to 2.5.5 and Java 17
This tutorial shows you how to use RabbitMQ in Spring Boot with guided examples. Includes configuration to serialize your messages using JSON.
This guide shows you how to configure Dependency Injection for your Cucumber tests in Spring Boot.
Step-by-step migration guide from Spring Boot 2.3 to Spring Boot 2.4 for the Learn Microservices with Spring Boot book's microservice architecture project
Write stable end-to-end Cucumber tests with Awaitility to deal with asynchronous and eventually-consistent systems.
We use a real project as a practical example of how to implement step definitions with Cucumber in Java, and the best practices to keep state between steps.
Create an example Cucumber project in Java with the right package structure, and add an HTTP Client to connect to the backend system.
An introduction to the benefits of using BDD, Cucumber and its Gherkin syntax for End-to-End tests in a microservice architecture, using Java code examples.
Build a full end-to-end reactive application with this practical guide that will take you through a real web application example.
Understand how Spring Boot auto-configuration works under the hood with practical examples of embedded Tomcat configuration and conditional beans.
A practical guide to error handling in Spring Boot for REST controllers. It covers from basic scenarios to more advanced concepts.
A complete set of examples for serialization and deserialization with Java and JSON for the most common use cases.
Learn how to write more readable Unit Tests using a BDD style with AssertJ and BDDMockito.
Run your own Eureka cluster with Spring Boot and learn much more than basic use cases of Service Discovery.
Final thoughts and conclusions on building a Full Reactive Stack application
Building a reactive Angular frontend for our Spring WebFlux application
Learn the differences between the Future and CompletableFuture implementations in Java and grasp the concepts with these practical examples.
Building the backend of a reactive application with Spring Boot, WebFlux and MongoDB
A guide that will show you the basics about Reactive programming concepts with Java: Publishing, Subscribing, Back-pressure, and more.
Build and run your Spring Boot application as a Docker container with this practical guide.
A basic example of RestController in a Spring Boot application using @GetMapping and @PostMapping, with API docs generated automatically via Swagger.
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