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Kotlin has many things going for it, with one of the main qualities being its built-in null-safety. This guarantees that properties will always have a non-null value at runtime, greatly reducing the risks of coding errors and NullpointerExceptions. In languages where this isn't the case -- Java, anyone?
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If you -- like me -- are a sucker for reducing boilerplate and are using JSR-303 - Bean Validation (I use it as part of Spring Boot) then you may have noticed how it can help you reduce validation boilerplate code. We can define REST endpoints on our application, which
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Sometimes you have to deal with existing libraries... also libraries that do not provide out-of-the-box support for Kotlin (bastards!). What do you do in such a scenario? Write your own ;-) In one of my recent projects we were using a mocking framework called: JMockit. We already had a lot
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While browsing the internet I stumbled upon a nice tool called spring-boot-admin (https://github.com/codecentric/spring-boot-admin). This tool, made by Codecentric, offers a nice overview that gives you access to things like metrics, log levels, environment properties, number of threads and many more that are exposed by the Spring
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As all of us who write Java on a daily basis have experienced, we tend to spend a considerable amount of time writing boilerplate code. We can sometimes refactor that boilerplate away by using specialized classes for certain activities, but that doesn't always bring us the right results.