Getting started with @EmbeddedKafka and Spring Kafka auto-configuration in a @SpringBootTest made working together despite mismatching defaults by adjusting bootstrapServersProperty

Find out how to save time while debugging by utilizing Live Recorder. But also integrate Live Recorder in your CI Pipeline, allowing you to view failed test & application state retrospectively.

By now everyone has likely come across the recent log4j exploit called "log4shell", recorded as CVE-2021-44228. Later, two more vulnerabilities were discovered, CVE-2021-45046 and CVE-2021-45105. We wanted to share our findings and recommended immediate remediation steps. We will update this post as new information becomes available.

After the Kotlin 2021 Premier Online Event taking place just recently and the book "Java to Kotlin: A Refactoring Guidebook" by Duncan McGregor and Nat Pryce coming out, I thought it was a good time to write about Java patterns and how Kotlin can help you implement them or can even make them obsolete!

On my serverless journey, I had a closer look at the technologies around. Since I have been implementing applications with Spring for many years, it was natural to try Spring Cloud Function. Let's have a closer look at how a serverless function running as Azure Function can be implemented with Spring.