In the last month I worked a lot with migrations in a Spring Boot application. I used Flyway as a version control tool to manage migration scripts. Flyway is a great and easy to use tool to deal with migrations in a Java project with a SQL database. In the following I will show you in a demo application how to set up flyway in a spring boot app... Read more 01 Sep 2019 - 5 minute read
In one of my latest blog posts I talked about authentication and authorization. Now I want to dive deeper and tackle common authentication methods for REST APIs. In this blog post I start with one of the most common and easiest way to implement authentication methods. Basic Authentication (BA) One of the most common and easiest ways to secure... Read more 22 Jan 2019 - 2 minute read
Java Stream API is there since Java 8. It is used to express computation on data is a short and elegant way. In the following post I will introduce you to the most common methods to give you an idea what you can achieve with the Java Stream API. Streams vs Collections Before jumping right into the code I want to explain the difference between ... Read more 20 Jan 2019 - 4 minute read
Lately I have dealt a lot of with authentication and authorization. Therefore I will probably blog a little bit more about these topics in the next weeks. But before that happens I want to talk about specific technologies and tools I want to talk a little bit about the basics. First let’s understand what authentication and authorization is. Au... Read more 18 Jan 2019 - 1 minute read
Voice Platforms like Alexa and Google Assistant became very popular in the last few years. They are made possible through the huge progress in speech to text interpretation and natural language understanding in the last years. Voice Systems enable users an alternative user interface and user experience. In the following I want to talk about th... Read more 27 Dec 2018 - 3 minute read