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Besides the native mode, Quarkus also runs well in JVM mode which comes with its own advantages. You can use an alternative JVM, such as OpenJ9 which gives you better resource consumption. In the following video I’ll show how easy it is to swap the JVM. In the video, I’m using the Docker image adoptopenjdk/openjdk14-openj9 in one of the latest ...

If you have access to the JAX-RS API and an implementation in your projects (many do), then you can use JAX-RS’ UriBuilder to conveniently create URIs via builder pattern using resolvable placeholder. Have a look at the following example: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 String host = System.getProperty("host", "localhost"); String port = System.getProperty("port", "8080");   URI uri = ...

Quarkus supports CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection) 2.0, but not all of it, only the most common features. However, Quarkus does include some non-standard features that can come in quite handy to developers which I want to show in the following video. Whether or not you’re familiar with CDI, if you use Quarkus you should have a look at the ...

In this saga divided into three-part, I will demonstrate how to use the SoapUI API tool to invoke a secured SOAP service. Firstly, I will focus on creating a service where in the next posts it will serve as the system under test. The access to the resource in this service is maintained using Basic Authentication transport security mechanisms. One of many provided by ...

Last year I was coaching a team. One of the big problems the team faced was excessive work in progress – and tendency for developers to start new work when they hit a blockage. Eventually, with the help of the Product Owner who saw the problem too, we starved the work pipeline. The team actually ran out of work. We ...

In this article, we will take a look at making API Calls in a ReactJS application. Making API Calls to perform CRUD operations on data is a critical and important feature of most applications. We gain an understanding and learn the intricacies of achieving the same in with ReactJS. ReactJS has soared in popularity and has become the go-to library ...

This was originally posted on LinkedIn as Life without TDD – Driving with the brakes off, or driving with no brakes? This version is updated with my current thinking around TDD and how to write! Once upon a time… Today one of our unit tests failed. Its failure stopped our automated release process in its tracks and we spent a ...

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL)? You can use MBWAL with collocated teams. MBWAL doesn’t work for distributed or dispersed teams. Remember, working remote is Not Business as Usual. (And won’t be for a while.) And, you might still have this question: “If no one’s in the office, how will I know what ...

Testcontainers is a Java library that allows integrating Docker containers in JUnit tests with ease. In a Containerized World, there is little sense to complicate the tests configuration with embedded databases and services. Instead, use run your services in Docker and let the Testcontainers manage this for you. In this blog post you will learn how to configure Testcontainers to ...