In this post, you will see code samples for how to upload a file to AWS S3 bucket from a Java Spring Boot app. The code you will see here is from one of my open-source repositories on Github, called document-sharing. Problem Let’s say you are building a document sharing Read more
In this post, you will see how to build a full stack application using Spring boot API with ReactJS frontend. In the last few years, microservices have been all the rage and people are increasingly turning towards using them. The way people talk about the benefits of Microservices can at Read more
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
