Orchestration

I have recently spent quite a lot of time playing with Spring Cloud Data Flow (SCDF). It is an amazing platform that can be used for many things. Talking about it with some of my colleagues I realized that not everyone knows what are the common use cases. Thinking about it further I realized that I don’t know the full scope of capabilities and business problems that it can solve! In this article I look at different uses for Spring Cloud Data Flow based on what the platform offers and actual stories from companies using it in production. The examples come from Spring One Platform 2017 conference. ...

Last week I wrote about getting Started with Spring Cloud Data Flow. This week I want to show you a few more things that you can do with this amazing platform. In this article I will show you how to make your own Apps that can be part of Data Flow Streams and how to use the Data Flow Shell to control the platform. I assume here that you know how to get you Data Flow up and running and you are familiar with the basics of the platform. If not- don’t worry! Check out my Getting Started with Spring Cloud Data Flow article to learn the basics. ...

In this article, I will show you how you can get started with Spring Cloud Data Flow. Spring Cloud Data Flow is an amazing platform for building data integration and processing pipelines. It has a very user-friendly graphical dashboard where you can define your streams, making your work with data an absolute pleasure. The goal of this article is to have you learn to build some simple data pipelines by the time you are finished reading. Before we get started there are a few system requirements: ...

HATEOAS – Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State, a name long enough to intimidate and confuse. Behind this complicated name we have a rather simple and elegant idea. In this blog post, I explain what HATEOAS is and how it can be practically used to build more stable systems. HATEOAS is a way of designing a REST API. More precisely it is a specific constraint of a REST architecture. It can be summed up with: ...