You've probably heard of Elasticsearch or the Elastic Stack. The project started as a search engine based on Lucene, an open-source search engine library built by Shay Banon to index his wife's cooking recipes. Since its early days, Elasticsearch has come a long way and has evolved into the Elastic…
Read moreIn this tutorial, you're going to use Spring Boot and Spring Data to build a fully functioning web service with ridiculously little effort. You're also going to use Okta to secure the web service using professional, standards-compliant OIDC JWT authentication. All of this will be bootstrapped by the Okta CLI.
Read moreNote: 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.
Read moreEvery non-trivial application needs a way to save and update data: a resource server that is accessible via HTTP. Generally, this data must be secured. Java is a great language with decades of history in professional, enterprise development, and is a great choice for any application's server stack. Within the…
Read moreLast month, I wrote about NoSQL Options for Java Developers. I analyzed the data available from a variety of sources (Indeed jobs, GitHub stars, Stack Overflow tags) to pick the top five options: MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Neo4j, and PostgreSQL. After writing this article, I shared it with a few experts…
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Matt Raible 8 min read
The Java community is one I know and love, so even though a NoSQL database is rarely tied to a language I'm writing this article for you, Java developers around the world. In this article, I'll show you several options for NoSQL databases. After exploring all the options, I'll narrow…
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