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“I love writing authentication and authorization code.” ~ No Java Developer Ever. Tired of building the same login screens over and over? Try the Okta API for hosted authentication, authorization, and multi-factor auth. Most OAuth 2.0 guides are focused around the context of a user, i.e., login to an application using Google, Github, Okta, etc., then do something on behalf ...

Discover faster, more efficient performance monitoring with an enterprise APM product learning from your apps. Take the AppDynamics APM Guided Tour! The growth of the AppDynamics Demo Platform resulted in infrastructure that had become larger and more difficult to manage without a real orchestration tool. We will look at the steps involved in converting one of our Docker Compose to ...

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Do you want to know what is the best investment you can make with your time and money? Knowledge As a software developer you should be constantly acquiring new skills. This is the best way to advance your career and enjoy the rewards (monetary, emotional etc.). Towards that direction you should be reading books, devouring technical articles and staying informed ...

Spring Cloud Sleuth which adds Spring instrumentation support on top of OpenZipkin Brave makes distributed tracing trivially simple for Spring Boot applications. This is a quick write up on what it takes to add support for distributed tracing using this excellent library. Consider two applications – a client application which uses an upstream service application, both using Spring WebFlux, the ...

While I was working on this blog, I encountered this error: [INFO ] DSRA8203I: Database product name : MySQL [INFO ] DSRA8204I: Database product version : 8.0.11 [INFO ] DSRA8205I: JDBC driver name : MySQL Connector/J [INFO ] DSRA8206I: JDBC driver version : mysql-connector-java-8.0.11 (Revision: 6d4eaa273bc181b4cf1c8ad0821a2227f116fedf) [INFO ] CWWJP9990I: test/wsjpa:wsjar:file:/home/dwuysan/dev/appservers/wlp/usr/servers/test/apps/expanded/test.war/WEB-INF/lib/d9f2b261-b3c6-4001-8a61-0aaebe46aa99.jar!/_testPU login successful [INFO ] WELD-000900: 2.4.5 (Final) [INFO ] FFDC1015I: ...

Having heard many great reviews, I thought I’ll give Open Liberty a try. In this post, I shall discuss the following: Setup of Open Liberty Setup JDBC connection Setup Arquillian Testing REST endpoint Installing Open Liberty At the time of writing, I am using Open Liberty 18.0.0.1, and I am using Java SE 1.8.0_172 (P.S. Keen to move on to ...

In the world of RESTful services where a lot of work actually happens behind the scenes, we often have to do much of the processing in our application which doesn’t actually affect the response which needs to be sent to a real-world user. These business decisions can be taken reactively so that they do not have any impact to a ...

Any computer science graduate from a university, technical school or community college is trained in it. Every company of any stature uses the language and has a cadre of programmers capable in it. It is the lingua franca that drives businesses. This was COBOL in 1985. Today, it’s Java. While there are differences, these two languages share enough similarity in their ...

I was recently surprised by how one code base had public default constructors (i.e. zero-arguments constructors) in all their domain entities, and had getters and setters for all the fields. As I dug deeper, I found out that the reason why the domain entities are the way they are is largely because the team thinks it was required by the ...

If you have just started learning Java and came from C background then you might have noticed some difference between Java and C programming language e.g. String is an object in Java and not a NULL terminated character array. Similarly, there is is no sizeof() operator in Java. All primitive values have predefined size e.g. int is 4 bytes, char ...

I’ve long worried about “ Best Practices ”. Sure I usually play along at the time but lurking in the back of my mind, waiting for a suitable opportunity are two questions: Who decided this was best practice? Who says this practice can’t be bettered? I was once told by someone from the oil industry that it was common for ...

Overcome the challenge of maintaining code quality in a CI/CD workflow with Continuous Reliability CI/CD practices encourage frequent code integration in development, speed up preparations for new releases and automate deployments. And with this new tooling, these parts of the software development lifecycle have all improved and accelerated. At the same time, the data that we use to evaluate the ...