MongoDB has changed a lot over the last few years. I have not used it for more than eight years in production now. I recently need to use MongoDB as a multi-purpose data store. It surprised me a lot with the new features, but I was slightly disappointed with the problems of read and write concerns at default settings. However, you can set it to a majority or a higher level to achieve casual consistency. In this post we are going to cover how to create a spring boot service, connect to Mongo DB with a reactive driver, and perform...
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Encryption as a Service using Vault with Spring Boot
Database columns can be encrypted multiple ways. Most of the databases have built-in support to encrypt the values. For example, in Postgres we can use the function pgp_sym_encrypt and pgp_sym_decrypt. It has some disadvantages like every read/write operation will have some operation overhead and slow down the DB servers. Most of the database providers give an option to encrypt the values. Moreover, keys used for the encryption should be properly managed. And it is complicated to do within the realms of the database servers. In a distributed system, the computing costs should be kept minimal and databases have a very...
Continue reading...Changing HttpClient in Spring RestTemplate
If you’re a Spring boot user, you might have definitely used RestTemplate. If you read the official documentation carefully, you might read that RestTemplate will be deprecated in the future and we must use WebClient which offers Synchronous, Asynchronous and Streaming scenarios such as Server-Sent Events, WebSockets, etc. Majority of the applications in production uses RestTemplates and will be practically a long way before it is completely replaced with Reactive WebFlux. It is important to know how we can customize the RestTemplate changing different Http clients. The default HttpClient used in the RestTemplate is provided by the JDK. It is...
Continue reading...Introduction to Micrometer with Springboot
Springboot and Springcloud has made it easier to develop Microservices in the past couple of years and its usage has increased tremendously. Springboot without Micrometer is like riding a Tesla X without the instrument cluster. Alternatively there are plenty of other tools available to instrument your code to collect metrics and some of them supplied by the metrics aggregators, some are provided by APM vendors and then there is a big gamut of open source projects. When we think about it at the enterprise scale questions like below may arise before choosing the right tool. Where should I place my...
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