Microservice architecture became very popular in the last years. This approach has a lot of benefits, which are widely praised at conferences. Unfortunately, it is very common to forget about the problems and difficulties we may encounter. Those who know me a little, know that I have always been skeptical of this approach. In this … Continue reading "Scaling down microservices"
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It is a common situation when an existing Spring component requires some extensions. We have to add new functionality to the existing application. I would like to share my experience on how to deal with such situations in order to keep the application code clean and maintainable.
Read MoreStrategy is one of the most useful design patterns, which allows us to change algorithms or implementations of an operation during runtime. Typical use cases include validating or parsing data depending on some decisions made on the fly. And although the pattern is widely described in various sources and well known amongst programmers I think there is still a missing part in great number of examples we can find. Let me explain what I have in mind…
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The idea behind builder pattern is actually quite simple – it should help you to build your objects. But let me show you today why it is so important to use and how we can adjust it with some implementation tricks to achieve different goals and coding styles.
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