My current project uses the reactive programming paradigm. I don’t have much experience with it, but over the past months I found my way around it. One service that I’m currently working on needs to retrieve different data from other services to generate an excel export. Every call that the service makes returns a Mono …
My current project relies on the use of the AWS VPN Client as it supports SAML based federated authentication. When I started on the project I was still using a Mac, but a few months in I got a new Tuxedo notebook and had to migrate everything to Linux. Unfortunately Amazon officially only supports Ubuntu …
A few days ago I received an email from my domain registrar Fritz Managed IT, a small local IT company. They were going to raise domain prices. My domain has always been fairly expensive compared to a standard tld domain, but I wasn’t very concerned about the fact. When I read the mail, however, I …
It’s one of those little problems that I’ve been having over and over during my whole career: You have some local changes in your working tree, but you don’t want to commit them in the end. The files should be in version control, so .gitignore is not the solution. You promise yourself to be careful …
I’m a fan of the http client delivered as part of Intellij and I have been using it in many customer projects to quickly invoke service endpoints. Implementing requests is often faster than using other standalone tools like Postman and since it’s part of my prefered IDE there’s almost no friction using it. Service endpoints …
Recently I wanted to add some additional security layers to a server that I administer. To a seasoned admin, this will be old news, but I’m a hobbyist and just learned about this. Maybe some of you find it useful as well. If you have a server that is publically accessible, when you look at …
My last article covered my first steps with using Pact to implement Consumer Driven Contracts. One thing that I left out intentionally was working with the Pact Broker to share contract between consumers and providers. This post looks at just that.
Consumer driven contracts have been around for years. I got frustrated with the state of the official documentation and other available resources, so in this post I try to come up with an easy to follow approach to start implementing them using Pact.
For a project I’m currently working on we are using the well-known tool Postman to test the http API of a service that we are developing and maintaining. I have been using it to test single requests in the past, but as it comes with a lot of features and can feel a bit bloated …
Since recently I’m working on an open source project hosted on a Gitlab instance. We also manage project issues in Gitlab and in my commit messages I reference those issues, where appropriate. I do this by prefixing the commit message with a hashmark and the issue number. A commit message can look like that: #123: …
