API Authentication and Authorization with Spring Security This is the fourth post of my REST API series, where I write about my impressions and experience with this architecture style using Java with Spring Boot. The full series of articles are listed below: Part I: Project setup and API implementation with…

API documentation using Swagger This is the third post of my REST API series, where I write about my impressions and experience with this architecture style using Java with Spring Boot. The full series of articles are listed below: Part I: Project setup and API implementation with Spring Boot Part…

HATEOAS and Root Entry Point This is the second post of my REST API series, where I write about my impressions and experience with this architecture style using Java with Spring Boot. The full series of articles are listed below: Part I: Project setup and API implementation with Spring Boot …

Project setup and API implementation with Spring Boot This is the first post of my REST API series, where I write about my impressions and experience with this architecture style using Java with Spring Boot. The full series of articles are listed below: Part I: Project setup and API implementation…

How RMM can help us build a better API — I’ve been studying REST APIs for some time, and it’s inevitable to reach many articles and recommendations about the Richardson Maturity Model (R.M.M.) developed by Leonard Richardson. It made me think why it’s important, and how we can apply its principles to make an easy-to-use (and understand) API. After some…

API Gateway and Centralized Logs — This is the third post of my microservices series, where I talk about my impressions of this architecture style using Java with Spring Boot. The full series of articles are listed below: Part I: Project setup, REST communication and Service Discovery Part II: Fault tolerance and Configuration Server Part III…

Fault tolerance and Configuration Server — This is the second post of my microservices series, where I talk about my impressions of this architecture style using Java with Spring Boot. The full series of articles are listed below: Part I: Project setup, REST communication and Service Discovery Part II: Fault tolerance and Configuration Server Part III…

Project setup, REST communication and Service Discovery — This is the first post of my microservices series, where I talk about my impressions of this architecture style using Java with Spring Boot. The full series of articles are listed below: Part I: Project setup, REST communication and Service Discovery Part II: Fault tolerance and Configuration Server Part III…

A guided journey using Spring Boot In this article it will be described the steps of building a REST API with Java, and talk about some design decisions and personal preferences. I built an API to serve as a reference, including authentication/authorization using JWT and all sort of tests. I’ll…