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Multitenant Mystery Only Rockers in the Building by Thomas Vitale @ Spring I/O 2023

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REST next level: Crafting domain-driven web APIs by Julien Topçu @ Spring I/O 2023

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ArchUnit Spring Integration

ArchUnit is a tremendously useful library for enforcing Java application architecture via unit testing. Fellow software developer and consultant Roland Weisleder recently published a new library called ArchUnit Spring Integration that helps with - well - better integrating ArchUnit with Spring applications. By introducing a DSL, ArchUnit Spring Integration allows you to easily enforce constraints regarding common Spring stereotypes such as @RestController. For example, using ArchUnit Spring Integration you can make sure that methods annotated with @GetMapping (or other HTTP verb mappings, for ... Read more

Spring Boot & Flyway – How to Clear a Test Database Between Integration Tests

A few months ago, consultant and prolific open source contributor Maciej Walkowiak, of Spring Cloud AWS and just fame, wrote about clearing test databases between integration tests with Spring Boot and Flyway. The recipe / pattern for restoring a test database to its previous state (i.e. the state before a specific integration test has been executed) outlined in that article should come in handy to anyone working with Spring Boot. Moreover, the basic concept is generic enough to be applied to another ... Read more

WireMock Spring Boot

WireMock is an API mocking tool that enables developers to simulate REST APIs during testing. In a system-under-test fashion, it allows us to remove external, potentially flaky, dependencies from our test environment to make our unit tests more focussed and more reliable. WireMock Spring Boot is a new library by consultant and prolific open source contributor Maciej Walkowiak that "drastically simplifies WireMock configuration in a Spring Boot and JUnit 5 application". Featuring a fully declarative WireMock setup and automatic Spring environment setup, ... Read more

Why Spring Belongs In Your Data Stream (From Edge to Multi Cloud) by Fabrizio Marini @ Spring I/O 23

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Build resilient systems with Spring Cloud Contract and Testcontainers by Olga & Oleg @ Spring I/O 23

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The Easy Way to Run and Scale Spring Apps on Cloud by Sean Li & Adib Saikali @ Spring I/O 2023

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Vector Similarity Search in Spring with Redis Stack by Brian Sam-Bodden @ Spring I/O 2023

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Testing with Spring, AOT, GraalVM, and JUnit 5 by Sam Brannen @ Spring I/O 2023

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