It took me a while to find and did need a combination of multiple sources to get Spring Batch Kafka working with SASL_PLAINTEXT authentication. So let me show you how I did it. Keep in mind it is just a starting configuration so you get a connection working. application.yaml
Three days of conference, Quarkus all the way
At the beginning of February, the biggest Scandinavian developer conference “JFokus” took place in Stockholm. Within 3 days there were many interesting lectures on topics like “Distributed data management in a microservice architecture”, a workshop on how to write your own Java agents, several lectures on garbage collectors and memory optimization. But the most common […]
Why your stateless Spring Boot Service still creates HTTP sessions
About two years ago I rolled out the first productive Spring Boot application within OpenShift. One of the problems we met back then was opening HTTP sessions even though we only rolled out a stateless REST server. A few days ago, there were problems with another REST service. When I was called up and saw […]
Java 8 vs Java 11 – Productive business application benchmark
Last week I could finally migrate a productive business application from Java 8 to Java 11. Until now the Continues Integration Pipeline didn’t support Java 11 completely. As that changed last week I could finally deploy the application on the clients OpenShift cluster. The application is a simple CRUD-Rest Service on top of an Oracle […]