Introduction In our previous post, we introduced the fundamentals of logging in Spring Boot, covering why logging is crucial and the basics of logging levels. Now, we take a step further to explore how to customize your logging configuration. Spring Boot provides a flexible logging framework that can be easily adjusted to suit your needs, … Read more
Introduction Logging is an essential aspect of software development, providing insights into what’s happening inside an application running in development or production. Effective logging practices help developers diagnose issues, understand application behavior, and improve performance. Spring Boot simplifies the logging process, allowing developers to focus more on building features rather than configuring logging infrastructure. This … Read more
Overview With NIO2, you can do things that aren’t available in the old IO. One of such things is you can watch file changes in certain directories. Let’s see how to do it in action. Watching file changes in directories using Java Let’s consider this code snippet: This code is quite straightforward. Essentially, it creates … Read more
Overview Recently, my development laptop with 16 GB of RAM doesn’t seem to be enough to handle Intellij IDEA and WebStorm. So I had to remove WebStorm and use VSCode. Things got a little bit better but Intellij IDEA RAM usage kept going up. Since I only need to work on the front end at … Read more
Overview Spring AOP is a power tool to help you separate the cross-cutting concern from your main logic. This post provides some recipes to help you get started quickly with AOP. The annotations Here is a quick introduction to the annotations you can use in AOP: Annotation Description @Before Executes before the advised method is … Read more
Overview Recently I had this use case: I need to integrate Android login with my web app which is using keycloak as IDP. Once the user logs in successfully, the Android app will send an ID token to verify to the backend. Since the user doesn’t have a password (because they haven’t registered for example), … Read more