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Using Gitlab registry with google Jib

Even if it has been there for a long time now and I've even wrote a post about it, Google announced officially JIB few weeks back! Jib is a nice tool that helps automate the packaging of a Java program so that it can be run in the cloud-native environment.

Karate framework: REST API testing made easy!

We all agree that there’s no way of making HTTP requests and navigating the forest of data that is returned to be fun! API testing, be it REST or GraphQL, can be tricky – both from perspectives of the testing code itself and from maintaining it up to date as

Smarter search with RSQL

RSQL is a query language for parametrized filtering of entries in RESTful APIs. It’s based on FIQL (Feed Item Query Language), that was originally specified by Mark Nottingham as a language for querying Atom feeds. However the simplicity of RSQL and its capability to express complex queries in a

Java & Docker: Java 10 improvements strengthen the friendship!

Till JDK 10, running java applications in linux containers was a bit tricky and requires additional setup to avoid surprises. These issues does not affect only older versions of Java (prior to 10), but also some tools that collect information from the execution environment like top, free and ps. That's

A practical introduction to Spring Cloud Contract

Microservices are eating the world! The arrival of this concept changed not only the way we're designing our software architecture, but also how teams are formed, how they're organized and how they work together. One of the many other challenges that Microservices brings, is the way we test changes made

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