When we develop our applications to interact with some data in storage, mapping it to a POJO is usually the way to translate our data into something usable in code. This post will cover the different annotations that can be added to a Java POJO to let Spring Boot, combined with Spring Data JPA, do …
Anyone that has had their nose in the Software development world over the last few years won’t have gone a day without hearing or using Docker in some form, whether it be planning to use it, supporting it or reading about it, it is everywhere! Docker, and in a wider sense, Dev Ops, has become …
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I was completing a code review for a recent merge/pull request and one of the questions that arose from this was the use of Optional.ofNullable() for checking if something was null and assigning a value if not. There was quite a bit of back and forth because really, the Optional route looks really nice and …
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Anytime anything in the tech world has been around for a while, especially in Software Engineering where new frameworks are created every day (at least it seems that way), the question of whether something “older” is worth learning comes up. The short answer of whether you should bother learning Spring Boot is yes, of course, …
Spring Boot is a great candidate for microservices for a variety of reasons! We’ll outline some of the main reasons to help you make an informed decision if you need to consider a tech stack for your next project. It’s worth noting that some of these are not exclusive to Spring Boot, but are definitely …
One of the first things people need to consider when creating a REST API or an application, in general, is where to store the data it may need to access. Fortunately, it’s incredibly easy to sit your Spring Boot app on top of a database due to the Spring Boot devs making it configurable either …
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When you’re starting a new project and you haven’t had massive amounts of experience with any singular language or framework, picking a framework is usually a sticking point. A lot of people get “analysis paralysis” trying too hard to pick the right tool for the job, when in fact, they should just go ahead and …
Introduction Spring Boot is by far one of the most commonly used frameworks in the world of Java today. The speed at which you can build a fully functioning REST API as well as all the other advantages of Java as a language makes Spring Boot a must learn when considering tooling for your next …