Writing Integration Tests with Docker Compose and JUnit
03/06/17
An integration test verifies the communication paths and interactions between components to detect interface defects. — Martin Fowler In my... Read more
Posts about Microservices
Integration testing strategies for Spring Boot microservices part 2
This is the second part of my earlier post about strategies for integration-testing Spring Boot applications that consist of multiple... Read more
CQRS and Event Sourcing with Lagom
Lagom is the new microservices framework from Lightbend (formerly Typesafe, the company behind Scala and Akka). The framework and the... Read more
Integration testing strategies for Spring Boot microservices
SUMMARY: Unit tests are a necessary condition to clean code, but today’s convention-over-configuration frameworks like Spring Boot are often used... Read more
Let’s build a Spotify GraphQL Server – Part 1
01/01/17
GitHub built a GraphQL API server. You can write your own, too. This article shows how to write a GraphQL Server for Spotify - Part 1 Read more
CQRS and ES with Akka
Somewhere back in December 2015 Heiko Seeberger visited us for a Scala training. At the end of the last day... Read more
Event Driven Microservices with Spring Cloud Stream
04/05/16
Lately I’ve been much into event driven architectures because I believe it’s the best approach for microservices, allowing for much... Read more
MicroPlode – Microservices dialogue
12/14/15
MicroPlode – A Microservices Experiment Part I: MicroPlode – A Microservices Experiment Part II: MicroPlode – Implementing the first Microservice... Read more
Loadtesting using Gatling-FatJars and InfluxDB
12/02/15
For the really impatient ones: Here’s the code. I am not getting tired talking about the importance of load testing,... Read more