In this blogpost you will see how to call REST API with WebClient to get exchange rate. In this blogpost, you will go through a scenario of building an API for a foreign exchange app to perform currency conversions. To get the exchange rate data, the app will be invoking Read more…
In this post, you will see how to call an external API to build a jokes client in Java spring boot with RestTemplate. The original source of the jokes is an external API, that has an endpoint to return random Chuck Norris jokes. Chuck Norris jokes, always seem to get Read more…
If you have been coding for a system for some time, you may have noticed how the code gets cluttered, hard to read and maintain. It is not anyone’s fault, really. Just that, over time, requirements change and sometimes to meet delivery deadlines, one builds something up really quick to Read more…
Back in the day when I started working with Java, things were tough, quite tough actually. For my first job out of university, I was working on a large real-time inventory management app built using Java Struts framework with a MySql db backend. I remember how tough it was and Read more…
I had been hearing about HackerRank and I had a go at it to see just how my Java skills were. I haven’t used Java in some time now as I spent most of my time these days writing either Swift, Javascript or Typescript code relative to the project requirements. Read more…