Wednesday 10, July 2024
This blog post discusses how to enable SSL and client authentication in Tomcat 9.

Thursday 25, May 2023
This post discusses how to enable SSL and client authentication in a Spring boot application.

Monday 08, August 2022
Yesterday a team-member asked me what I think is the best way to call two REST APIs in parallel

Saturday 09, April 2022
Apache Camel is a neat framework if your application requires customizable workflows, components and a wide array of input and output adapters. This post demonstrates how to use Camel with Spring and XML to define routes.

Friday 25, February 2022
A quick code sample demonstrating use of Log4J2, SLF4J and configuring Log4J using a properties file.

Monday 25, January 2021
The blog post explores the use of AWS Secrets Manager - what problem it solves, how we store secrets using the AWS Management Console, configurations required for reading secrets and application code to read secrets.

Thursday 02, July 2020
The producer - consumer pattern is quite famous, here is a typical implementation of this pattern.

Sunday 31, May 2020
Dealing with connection pools in Java is a bit different. You need to use the correct DataSource implementation and there are quite a few! Each of these DataSource implementations behave differently.

Tuesday 28, January 2020
Quickly configure a VSCode workspace to create Java programs with JUnit support

Thursday 08, October 2015
Ever since copying a Gradle project from one computer to another I have been getting 'cannot resolve symbol String' and similar messages in IntelliJ.