This post gives an example how to read values and secrets from an alternative store instead of storing them in config files, which is never a good idea. The example uses the AWS parameter store, but can be easily adapted to the newer AWS Secrets Manager or any other store!
If you write lots of Kotlin code you might have noticed that it is annoying to write the named parameters when calling functions or when creating a new instance of class.
Last week, on Thursday 6th and Friday 7th of February, I attended DDD Europe 2020 in Amsterdam. In this post I will give a short overview of the talks and workshops I followed and some of my personal takeaways.
SQL allows you to do calculations on columns over multiple rows using aggregate functions like COUNT, SUM, AVG etc. This post explains how to use them in Kotlin Exposed. We will also cover arithmetic operations on one or more columns. If you haven’t used Kotlin Exposed before, you can go here for an introduction.
This is a blog post that tries to give a pragmatic explanation about what a monad is, and what problem it tries to solve. This post is written by Ties van de Ven and Justus Brugman.
This post explains how to use table aliases using Kotlin Exposed. Aliases are necessary when you want to join the same table multiple times. If you haven’t used Kotlin Exposed before, you can go here for an introduction: Kotlin Exposed - A lightweight SQL library.
We can use the flatten method in Groovy to flatten a collection that contains other collections into a single collection with all elements. We can pass a closure as extra argument to the flatten method to transform each element that is flattened. The argument of the closure is the element from the original collection.
The December 2019 release of Apache Kafka 2.4.0 saw usability improvements in TopologyTestDriver, with the addition of new TestInputTopic and TestOutputTopic classes.
These offer typesafe methods to easily produce and consume messages for your Kafka Streams tests.
In this post we’ll explore these new classes in the context of Avro messages, which requires a small trick to get working.
In a previous post we learned about callouts in Asciidoctor to add explanation to source code. While surfing the Internet I came upon the following blog post by Alex Soto: Auto-numbered Callouts in Asciidoctor. I turns out that since Asciidoctor 1.5.8 we can use a dot (.) instead of explicit numbers to have automatic increasing numbering for the callouts.
When using Springfox you can annotate your endpoints to automatically generate OpenAPI docs for your clients.
This blogpost will show how you can prevent Springfox generating a model on an endpoint with ResponseEntity as return type.
I’ll also cover how to prevent generating default responses.
Adding Spring Security to an existing application can be quite a daunting prospect. Merely adding the required dependencies to your project sets off a chain of events which can break your application and tests.
In a previous post I’ve shown how to use ZIO environments to provide your program with dependencies, or modules. While using environments at the customer I’m currently working for, we found out that the logic to get a database session object using a module would run over and again. This makes sense, since a ZIO[R, E, A] is a prescribed way of getting an A, and the result is not cached. Our application was reading configuration files and creating SQL sessions on every module call, while the resulting object was obviously constructed from the same underlying values. There are multiple ways to solve this:
