Piotr Mińkowski is a Java expert and Cloud Native consultant sharing practical insights on Spring Boot, Kubernetes, microservices, and modern software architecture.
11 articles from this blog
A guide on integrating Spring AI with external MCP servers for tools like GitHub and SonarQube using Docker's MCP Toolkit.
Introduces a Spring Boot library for automatically generating Istio resources on Kubernetes from Java annotations, simplifying development within the Istio service mesh.
Explains how to use Kubernetes' In-Place Pod Resize and Kube Startup CPU Boost to accelerate Java application startup by temporarily increasing CPU resources.
A guide to implementing gRPC services in Spring Boot using the new Spring gRPC project, including Protobuf definitions and code examples.
Author announces the publication of his book 'Hands-On Java with Kubernetes', explaining its motivation and content focused on Java app development for Kubernetes.
Explains how to implement API versioning using Spring Boot's built-in features for managing different REST endpoint versions.
A tutorial on using Quarkus LangChain4j to implement the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for connecting AI models to tools and data sources.
A guide to using the Arconia framework to add Quarkus-like Dev Services and observability features to Spring Boot applications.
A guide to building Quarkus application container images using Cloud Native Buildpacks and OpenShift Builds, including setup and commands.
A guide to deploying .NET applications on Red Hat OpenShift using the Source-to-Image (S2I) tool, covering setup and a sample project structure.
A tutorial on implementing AI tool calling (function calling) using the Quarkus LangChain4j extension to integrate chat models with APIs and databases.
