Raphael do Vale

All posts by Raphael do Vale

1. Build Spring Microservices and Dockerize Them for Production

   February 28, 2019 |

   11 min read

   In this post, you'll learn about microservices architecture and how to implement it using Spring Boot. After creating some projects with the technique, you will deploy the artifacts as Docker containers and will simulate a container orchestrator (such as Kubernetes) using Docker Compose for simplification. The icing on the cake…

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2. Spring Boot with PostgreSQL, Flyway, and JSONB

   February 20, 2019 |

   8 min read

   Note: In May 2025, the Okta Integrator Free Plan replaced Okta Developer Edition Accounts, and the Okta CLI was deprecated. We preserved this post for reference, but the instructions no longer work as written. Replace the Okta CLI commands by manually configuring Okta following the instructions in our Developer Documentation.

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3. Data Persistence with Hibernate and Spring

   February 1, 2019 |

   7 min read

   Note: In May 2025, the Okta Integrator Free Plan replaced Okta Developer Edition Accounts, and the Okta CLI was deprecated. We preserved this post for reference, but the instructions no longer work as written. Replace the Okta CLI commands by manually configuring Okta following the instructions in our Developer Documentation.

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4. Create a Secure Spring REST API

   December 18, 2018 |

   4 min read

   "If it is useful, it will be modified." Those words of wisdom came from a QA teacher of mine, to explain that all software evolves when it becomes useful to someone, and for as long as it is useful. We all know this. Users ask us for new features, bug…

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