Showing posts with label REST. Show all posts
Showing posts with label REST. Show all posts
Sunday, March 18, 2018

Spring WebSocket STOMP tips and tricks

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Recently we successfully implemented secure Websockets in one of our projects and learned a lot of tricks to get things working together. ...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Ruminating on Jackson JSON Parsing

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In my previous post , we discussed about how we can extract an arbitrary JSON value out of a JSON string. Very often, developers face anoth...
Monday, January 22, 2018

Ruminating on Netflix Conductor Orchestration

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We have been evaluating the Netflix open source Conductor project and are intrigued by the design decisions made in it. Netflix Conductor...

Ruminating on idempotency of REST APIs

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Most REST services are stateless - i.e. they do not store state in memory and can be scaled out horizontally. There is another concept ca...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Timeout for REST calls

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Quite often, we need a REST API to respond within a specified time frame, say 1500 ms. Implementing this using the excellent Spring RestTe...
Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Spring Sleuth Tips and Tricks

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Spring Sleuth coupled with Zipkin in an excellent tool to measure the performance bottlenecks in your distributed microservices architectu...
Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Parsing an arbitrary JSON string and extracting values

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Developers use libraries such as Jackson to convert JSON strings to Java objects and vice-versa. But what if you need to parse a JSON stri...
Monday, September 04, 2017

REST APIs for IoT?

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Currently MQTT continues to be the most popular standard for IoT devices to communicate to the cloud. But for many scenarios, even REST can...
Thursday, December 01, 2016

Ruminating on non-blocking REST services

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In a typical REST service environment, a thread is allocated to each incoming HTTP request for processing. So if you have configured your c...

Implementing a Request Response with Messaging (JMS)

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Quite often, we need to implement a request/response paradigm on JMS - e.g. calling a backend function on a mainframe or a third-party inte...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Netty at Apple Inc.

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I was pleasantly surprised to learn that most of Apple's cloud services run on Netty . Norman Maurer had posted an excellent presenta...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Beautiful REST API documentation

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InfoQ has published a list of tools that can be used for creating some cool documentation for our Web APIs. I was particularly impresse...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Using Spring MVC to create REST style services

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We have been always using Apache CXF or Axis 2 to build web services, but recently I was pretty impressed with the simplicity with which we...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Contracts in REST based services

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Traditionally REST based services did not have formal contracts between the service consumer and service provider. There used to be a out-o...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Understanding REST

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In one of my old posts , I had elaborated on the differences between REST and simple POX/HTTP. Recently came across an interesting post b...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Is POX/HTTP same as REST?

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There is a lot of confusion in the industry over REST webservices. A lot of applications offer POX/HTTP interfaces and call them REST webser...