If you use a workflow tool such as Trello, Assembla or Jira to help manage software development and are also using Git for your source control, you will often want to automatically update or add a comment to cards whenever a new commit is made. Luckily, you can do this easily if you are using AWS CodeCommit by creating a […]
Docker is a fantastic way to run micro-services like Dropwizard in a cloud environment. Because the service should be stateless, you can spin up multiple instances of them easily, allowing increased resilience (if one instance becomes unresponsive), simplified no outage deployments (can easily spin up new versions of the software) and much more. Docker also runs instance in their own […]
This is actually Part 5 of the “Building a Kotlin Dropwizard Maven REST API from scratch” series but I have broken it out into it’s own post for two reasons. Firstly this part is only useful if you want your API to talk to another API, while very common, is not always the case. Secondly this could be useful on […]
Part 4: Running We have configured our dependencies, wrote and configured a Kotlin Dropwizard resource and tested it. Now we need to run it! If you are using an IDE, open the file App.kt and you should be able to right click or to the left be able to run the @JvmStatic fun main method.You should see some text come […]
Part 3: Testing Before we run anything, it is probably a good idea to know it’s going to behave the way we intended to. The best way to do this is to write test, we can do this using normal junit testing (I am sure you are familiar with from Java) and it’s the same in Kotlin. In the src […]
Part 2: Add Dropwizard After creating our POM file in Part 1, we are ready to start writing some Dropwizard Kotlin code! We first need to create our folder structure. Next to your pom.xml file; create a folder named src, then inside there create one named main, and finally in there ,create two folders, kotlin and resources. Inside the Kotlin […]
Part 1: Configuring Maven Kotlin is a great JVM language, that started being popular with Android development but has started increasing its popularity with other types of development, including backend services. However most of the tutorials on the internet use Kotlin with Gradle, and while that is a great way to build your Kotlin application, sometimes you will want or […]
After a slow and relaxed start to the day, our first stop of the day was to find a “Drug Store” to get some ear drops as my right ear has decided to misbehave whilst we have been away. After securing the medication without any issue we wanted to start the fun part of the day. Iririki Island is a […]
A cruise ship was in town for the next couple of days, so the plan was to relax and enjoy the peace and quiet of the resort. I discovered you can order a complimentary coffee with your breakfast so that was necessary to cure my caffeine addiction. After eating (and if you are reading this mum, resting for thirty-minutes) I […]
“You better have packed sunscreen” said the kind stranger next to us on our flight to Vanuatu after taking one look at my paleness. She was lovely, actually every single person we have met so far has been extremely pleasant and helpful but I am getting ahead of myself. The plane ride was extremely short, once we were served our […]