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Deploying Spring Boot Apps to Kubernetes | Part 3: Creating a Kubernetes Deployment

In Part 2 we took the docker container for a basic Spring Boot application and ran it in a kubernetes Pod. In this post we explore the next level in kubernetes concept: Deployments. At a high level, Deployments allow declarative...

Introduction to Spring Data JDBC

In 2018, Spring Data JDBC was announced. The purpose was to provide developers with a simpler alternative to JPA while still following the Spring Data paradigm. If you’d like to know more about the motivations behind the project, check out...

Let's Talk About Retros

I’m going to take a quick break from direct software development topics for this post. Today I want to take some time to talk about something more related to Agile: retros. After some recent retros with my team they’ve been...