It is likely that you are developing some form of (web/RESTful) API, and in case it is publicly-facing (or even when it’s internal), you normally want to rate-limit it somehow. That is, to limit the number of requests performed over a period of time, in order to save resources and protect from abuse. This can […]
Spring Boot Admin is a cool dashboard for monitoring your spring boot applications. However, setting it up is not that trivial. The documentation outlines two options: Including a client library in your boot application that connects to the admin application – this requires having the admin application deployed somewhere public or at least reachable from […]
Sometimes we need to let users sign something electronically. Often people understand that as placing your handwritten signature on the screen somehow. Depending on the jurisdiction, that may be fine, or it may not be sufficient to just store the image. In Europe, for example, there’s the Regulation 910/2014 which defines what electronic signature are. […]
Most system have some sort of event logs – i.e. what has happened in the system and who did it. And sometimes it has a dual existence – once as an “audit log”, and once as event log, which is used to replay what has happened. These are actually two separate concepts: the audit log […]
It turns out that Spring Boot doesn’t mix well with the standard Spring MVC @EnableWebMvc. What happens when you add the annotation is that spring boot autoconfiguration is disabled. The bad part (that wasted me a few hours) is that in no guide you can find that explicitly stated. In this guide it says that […]
What’s a distributed cache? A solution that is “deployed” in an application (typically a web application) and that makes sure data is loaded from memory, rather than from disk (which is much slower), in order to improve performance and response time. That looks easy if the cache is to be used on a single machine […]
There’s an upcoming election in my country, and I’m a member of the governing body of one of the new parties. As we have a lot of focus on technology (and e-governance), our internal operations are also benefiting from some IT skills. The particular task at hand these days was to distribute a number of […]
Many libraries wrap some external communication. Be it a REST-like API, a message queue, a database, a mail server or something else. And therefore you have to have some timeout – for connecting, for reading, writing or idling. And sadly, many libraries have their default timeouts set to “0” or “-1” which means “infinity”. And […]
If you are building a service that stores sensitive data, your number one concern should be how to protect it. What IS sensitive data? There are some obvious examples, like medical data or bank account data. But would you consider a dating site database as sensitive data? Based on a recent leaks of a big […]
I thought for a while that object-oriented purism has died off. But it hasn’t – every now and then there’s an article that tries to tell us how evil setters and getters are, how bad (Java) annotations are, and how horrible and anti-object-oriented the anemic data model is (when functionality-only services act upon data-only objects) […]
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