Kubernetes 101 – Pods

Intro The Pod object is the fundamental building block in Kubernetes. It’s made of one or more (tightly related) containers, a shared networking layer, and shared filesystem volumes. Similar to containers, pods are meant to be ephemeral – there is no expectation that a specific pod will persist for a long lifetime. Its blueprint can […]

DevOps Statistics: The state of DevOps in 2022 and beyond

DevOps is now an integral part of most organizations that run complex operations. Although it is mostly used by big businesses at the moment, the latest statistics and trends show that DevOps is getting integrated more and more in small and medium-sized organizations as well. Businesses are rapidly adopting new trends that will help them […]

Kubernetes 101 – Services

Intro How do components interact with each other inside a Kubernetes cluster? There are different types of communication in Kubernetes: container-to-container (inside a pod) pod-to-pod pod-to-service external-to-service Service A service is an abstraction which defines a set of pods and a policy by which to access them. The set of pods targeted by a service […]

Spring Boot – Custom endpoints using RegEx

What do you do when REST conventions are seemingly impossible to follow? Brief Let’s say we have a user management system that we designed using the REST API guidelines. The URL on which we access a user would be: /users/{userId} Say your business logic is based on the userId. For users with a userId that […]

Code like a pro: Stop using more than one ‘else-if’ statement

It may look fine, and it’s certainly easy to understand, however, it is not the right way of doing things. What happens if the conditional is not from the ones in the method? Or what happens if a few months after development 5 new values appear, and you must handle them all separately? You could […]

Together we can accomplish more. mindit.io is now a Proud Partner of Microsoft

We are proud to announce that we are now an official partner of Microsoft. Being part of Microsoft Partner Network is being part of a valuable community that helps us train our team and build innovative solutions. Also, it enables us to offer advanced and premium services and solutions for our clients. Microsoft Silver Partner […]

What is the Elastic stack and how it can help you grow your business?

Introduction The purpose of this article is to provide some valuable insights on the Elastic stack, also known as ELK, how it works and if it can be an option for your business. What is the elastic stack and what its components do? Elastic Stack is a group of open-source products provided by Elastic, designed […]

Why outsource software development in 2022?

To outsource or not to outsource is one question asked sooner rather than later. Today’s article will focus on why you should consider outsourcing software for the following year. As mentioned in our previous article about outsourcing (link), outsourcing can be suitable for those companies that want to focus on activities oriented towards their core […]

An argument for using Optional as input parameter in Java

This will be a controversial topic, and I am sure that not all will agree with me. There is a debate in the Java community related to the Optional object and whether it should be used only as output or if it can be used as input as well. While most people advocate for only […]

How we successfully implemented IBM ACE

‍ In our article series based on ACE, we discussed the importance of integration tools such as App Connect Enterprise (click here). We argued why ACE could be a fruitful experience for both enterprises and end-users (click here). Our story is far from over, and below, we will present one of our success stories in […]