On road to continuous integration — What we will do After creating our API in the previous steps, we will now add some continuous integration in our Github project. That can be described at the following workflow : Run tests locally : CI is intended to be used in combination with automated unit tests written through the practices of test-driven…

Create your custom banner — Usually when you start a Spring Boot application you have something like this in your console output : . ____ _ __ _ _ /\\ /…

Tracking Jedi across the galaxy — A lot of API are documented using Swagger, it’s a good thing that API are documented for us developer for understanding how they work and how to call them. …

Strategy design pattern tutorial — Definition of the Strategy pattern In computer programming, the strategy pattern (also known as the policy pattern) is a behavioral software design pattern that enables selecting an algorithm at runtime. Instead of implementing a single algorithm directly, code receives run-time instructions as to which in a family of algorithms to use. Where to use the Factory pattern

The wonder of Github Readme — rock your profile — Prerequisites To display a personalize github profile page, you have some steps to follow Create a new Github repository named after your username, for exemple if your Github username is GithubRockstar, your repository should be named GithubRockstar. Make this repository public. Add a Readme.md file in the root of this repository. …

One test to rules them all ! — Parameterized test? Since JUnit4 we can now run the parameterized test, but what does that mean? It means that we can run one test multiple times with different values, great isn’t it? How to? Yeah that great, but how can I do that? That simple : Annotate your test class with @RunWith(Parameterized.class) Create method…

discovering a new way of documenting our API — A lot of API are documented using Swagger, it’s a good thing that API are documented four us dev for understanding how they work and how to call them. But a lot of these API are documented using Swagger 2, now that OpenApi is released (since 2017, the actual version is…

After having built, secured and documented our API, we will now learn how to monitor it. To do that we will use Prometheus and Grafana : Prometheus will serve to collect the API metrics Grafana will display it in panel to help to visualise the metrics What you will need If you have followed…

Searching through jedi archives — So after having built our API and then secured it, we will now document it to allow others to use it more easily. To do that, we will implement Swagger. What you will need In order to follow this tutorial, you will need a REST API, so you can : Follow the tutorial to…