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Self-Contained Systems and ROCA: A complete example using Spring Boot, Thymeleaf and Bootstrap

This post is about architectural concepts for web applications – self-contained systems (SCS) and resource-oriented client architecture (ROCA) – and their implementation with Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Thymeleaf, Bootstrap, jQuery, nginx and Redis. Self-contained systems aim at building software systems without ending up in a big monolith and provide an answer to the question ‘How micro should a micro service be?’. The resource-oriented client architecture (ROCA) provides some rules for implementing web applications that comply with how the web works – not working against the web.

Two years ago I built a ROCA prototype using Spring MVC, Spring Hateoas, Thymeleaf, Bootstrap and jQuery, and since Spring Boot appeared since then I decided to update the code. But then I did a lot more than just updating it to Spring Boot.

Let’s start with the concepts. By the way, if you read it and think ‘hey, there’s nothing brand new in here’, that’s okay. People built systems and web applications like this probably since the beginning of the web. Giving it names may be the new thing.
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Tobias Flohre

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This post is written on January 12, 2015 by

Combining Apache Cassandra with Apache Karaf

Getting the best of Apache Cassandra inside Apache Karaf: this blog post will describe how easy it was to embed the NoSQL database inside the runtime. This can be helpful while developing OSGi-related applications with Karaf that work together with Cassandra.
The entire project for the examples can be found at GitHub.

Working with Apache Cassandra is fun, though sometimes you just need a simple embedded server with a connected client to test something for a POC or to explore the APIs. So it should be easy to install and use this embedded server. Combining this with the power of Apache Karaf, an OSGi Container, makes an unbeatable team.

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Achim Nierbeck

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Elasticsearch tips: inserting vs. updating your index

Transforming an update-heavy Elasticsearch use case into an insert-heavy one.

Just recently i’ve had the opportunity to set up an Elasticsearch installation at a customer that had a rather unique use case, and i’d like to share my approach of that with you. This post will show why an update heavy use of Elasticsearch is a bad idea and how you could transform it into an insert heavy one, which is way faster.

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Christian Uhl

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