Diego Pacheco Tech blog

Spring Data Spring Data makes persistence much easier. I personally not a huge fan of JPA and ORMs.  However, I know lots of engineers like it and I respect different preferences. Have different preferences in different services is totally fine. However, doing that in shared libs is NO-NO. Today I want to cover a bit more about how we can use Spring Data JPA and H2 database for testing. Speed matters. Combining H2 and MockMVC we can speed up tests considerably. I made a simple POC showing how we can configure and use Spring Data JPA with H2 and do proper testing using MockMVC capabilities. I also show how to use the H2 Console so we can query the database. Spring-Data makes persistence much more concise and leverages lots of common functionality for us. So Let's get started. 

Lettuce by far is the best Redis client out there for Java. In the java world, Annotations and Mappings are pretty popular. I build services using these concepts before however they were always under the service boundaries, never as shared libraries in order to avoid coupling. So today I record a video showing how we can use this feature and also extend the functionality to add custom enriched behavior.  We will be using Spring Boot 2, Spring Data Redis, and Lettuce as redis Client. We also will need to have redis running either as standalone / cluster or running on docker. We will create custom annotations in order to describe the behavior we want. I need to say that some people love and other people hate annotations, I have mixed feelings. Often for those that don't like it - check this out . Besides that, let's take a look. So Let's get started.