Spring Cloud Function on Azure run locally

I am busy with a demo application to show the power of Cloud Functions in general and specific Spring Cloud Function. I was already able to deploy the Demo application on IBM Cloud, next step is to run in it on Azure. Prepare the application I found a very good article by Microsoft which explain Read More

Spring One Platform as a first timer

Last week it was the first time I attend Spring One Platform conference in Austin. It is the conference all around the Spring Framework. A very vibrant open source framework which coordinates by Pivotal. Road to Austin A friend of my has joined me (again), so we flew on a direct KLM flight to Houston Read More

Speaking at ISBG, hope to see you in Stockholm

Finally the agenda is published for the ICS Nordic event, ISBG. This year I will be one of the speakers. Sessions I will do 2 sessions, both about Spring Boot. One is an introduction to Spring Boot especially for Domino developers. The second will be more advanced, learn more about Reactive programming. Hope to see Read More

Supercharge your API with Reactive Streams

Today I did my session, about Reactive streams at Social Connections 14 in the very sunny Berlin. Slides of the session Social connections14: Super charge your API’s with Reactive streams from Frank van der Linden Reactive Streams Starter For this session I created a starter project, which will give you a kick start if you Read More

My slides of my session at IconUK and more

Icon UK 2018 has finished. Was great to see and speak to many people again. My Slides of IconUK Here are the slides of my session. Icon UK 2018 – Spring forward: an introduction to Spring boot and Thymeleaf for (XPages) developers from Frank van der Linden ….and more For my session I have created a Read More

Quick tip: Swagger support for Spring Webflux

At my customers when I create microservices I always add Swagger support, because it easy to test the microservice. Another create benefit it gives the business also a nice UI to see what to expect. Problem Now I am preparing a demo for my session about Reactive Programming, which I will give at Social Connections Read More

I am…. speaking at Icon UK and Social Connections

I am on my way to Birmingham to attend and speak at Icon UK On Friday at 12:10 – 12:55 I will have my session Spring forward: an introduction to Spring boot and Thymeleaf for (XPages) developers The world of (XPages) developer is moving fast. Customers rethinking platforms and solutions. Spring Boot makes it easy Read More

The slides of my session at Engage 2018

Engage 2018 is over. Another great event, this time at the stunning venue, the SS Rotterdam. My slides Here is are my slides of my session. Thanks everyone who had attended my session Spring forward: an introduction to Spring boot and Thymeleaf from Frank van der Linden Demo project For this session I have created Read More

Quick tip: test HTML pages on a local webserver with NodeJS

At a customer we are building lots of microservices with Spring boot which runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry hosted at the Azure platform. Some of these microservices are called from web pages with certain specific information, like field info. So in our projects we have most of the time a test html page to mimic Read More

Quick tip: run your Cloudant data everywhere with CouchDb

I moved our HR Assistant application to a Spring boot to run everywhere, but the data was still stored in a Cloudant database running on IBM Cloud. No problem, but not that flexible. So I was looking for a way to to store the data somewhere with minimum impact. Step 1: Get CouchDb running I Read More