Category: Spring

One of the operational challenges in the software industry is related to the shipping of software. How to ship software to various environments, such as test, staging, and production while ensuring the software behaves as expected? The advent of Virtual Machines (VMs) solved this to a large extent. However, VMs are heavy as they come […]Continue reading

The Need for Spring Boot Docker Layers If you follow my work, you know I’m a big fan of using Docker. As a software engineer at Velo Payments, I use Docker on a daily basis. Our architecture is primarily Spring Boot Microservices, deployed in Docker containers. This architecture gives us a tremendous amount of flexibility […]Continue reading

When you start a Spring application, the Spring Framework creates beans for you. These Spring beans can be application beans that you have defined or beans that are part of the framework. When the Spring Framework creates a bean, it associates a scope with the bean. A scope defines the runtime context within which the […]Continue reading

A common question I get is “What is the best UI to use with a Spring Boot?” UIs, also known as “User Interfaces” come in many different flavors. The UI application might be a desktop application writing in Java Swing, FX, or some other technology. The UI application could also be a mobile application written […]Continue reading

Should I Use Spring REST Docs or OpenAPI? Recently, I was asked which is better to use. Spring REST Docs or OpenAPI. From the perspective of generating documentation for your APIs, you may think these two options are effectively the same thing. But, it’s not exactly an apples to apples comparison. These are significantly different […]Continue reading