Software engineers have been ardently following Test Driven Development (TDD) as an XP practice for having necessary safety nets. I have even tried covering different schools of TDD with an example in one of my previous posts. Considering recent surge in using Spring Boot for developing Microservice applications, I …

Everyone of us as Software Engineers would have experienced memory leaks, OOM errors in our Java/JVM applications? In order to dissect such issues it is extremely important to understand the whats' and hows' of JVM memory and its management. JVM - Memory Management One of the many strengths of the JVM is that it …

Background As per the current trends, Microservice Architecture has become a common paradigm using which enterprise applications are built. With this paradigm shift, an application is going to have myriad set of independent and autonomous (micro)services. So how does a developer do testing within Microservice …

Considering the extensive usage of Spring Boot for building Cloud Native Architecture, I embarked on the journey of utilizing it in my reference Cloud Native application. When I ran my first application I was literally flabbergasted with the magic Spring Boot does under the hood, using which it camouflages the …

Whenever the buzz word 'Cloud Native Architecture' gets to our ears, first thing that comes to our mind is - It sounds too jazzy and latest and would have something to do with technology since it has a word called 'Architecture' within it :). Because of this it creates a perception in the minds of lot of people that …

This is the concluding blog of 2 part series on 'Anatomy of Test Driven Development'. Continuing from where we left in first part of this series, this will mainly talk about 'How' part of TDD along with its avatars. How to do TDD We start with a Test. To get this to work we need to frame the test. We need to make sure …

Since we being one of the most intellectual and so called logical species on this earth, we need proper rationale behind each and every action that we do in our personal and professional life. Hence I thought to pen down a two post series highlighting rationale behind following one off the most important and underrated …