Overview Recently I worked on a web app that needed to call an external API. The web app comprises an Angular (16) client and a Spring Boot (3) server. The call to that external API can be slow (up to 30 seconds). Cases like this are ideal for using multithreading. In this post, I will … Read more
Overview When you start using multiple threads in Spring applications, many funny things happen. At least this was my experience. My use case is I have one endpoint that takes an audio file. The file would go through two services: As I want to return the result of the speech-to-text service immediately, the upload part … Read more
Overview Recently, for the first time, I encounter a need to use an interface in @RequestBody in my Spring Boot app. Here is the diagram: This is the request that contains one IAudioContent However, when I sent a request to create a question group with TTSSingleRequest in JSON format for example, I got the following … Read more
Overview Spring Boot 3 came out with a lot of promises. The most prominent thing is the native image build. I currently deploy my apps as a fat jar in containers with JRE and it took around 20s to boot up. Thus, I would love to try the native build to see if is there … Read more
Overview Reading files is quite a common task in Java programming, and there are several ways to do so without relying on external libraries. In this tutorial, we will discuss four different ways to read text files in Java 8+ using built-in classes and APIs. We will go over examples of how to read text … Read more
Overview ThreadLocal provides a mechanism where multiple threads can store their own data on a single ThreadLocal object. You can think of ThreadLocal as a bank. Multiple can go to a single bank, deposit, and withdraw money. It is also the analogy of this tutorial. ThreadLocal Quick Example Using the bank analogy, let’s say there … Read more