A giant Spring application context created from multiple maven modules can have some challenges. Recently I encountered one at one of my clients. I thought I will describe it with a simple example which you can find on my github account.

I have created a sample repository where I experiment how to setup dockerized microservices with different datastores. In this blog post I will go through the sample using mysql datastore.

Spring AMQP in version 1.6 introduced the AsyncRabbitTemplate which allows the caller of the send and receive operations (sendAndReceive, convertSendAndReceive) not to block. The caller instead gets a handle to the computation in progress in the form of a ListenableFuture or can handle the result in a callback via ListenableFutureCallback

In this blog post I am looking into dead letter queue configuration with RabbitMQ. A message from a queue can be ‘dead-lettered’ when one the following things occur:

In this blog post I am looking into Spring Cloud Config project which is a great tool for centralized configuration management in a microservice environment. I have prepared a simple example project which you can find on my github account. It contains a config-service leveraging Spring Cloud Config Server and three little services using Spring Cloud Config Client.

In this blog post I would like to show you that the recently introduced Docker Native application (currently in private beta) makes it possible to configure a docker container with outside container storage without any workarounds on Mac or Windows, similarly how it works on Linux.