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Secured Order Management System with OAuth2 — This article explains how to secure your microservices deployment practically with OAuth2 using Ballerina programming language. Ballerina has first-class support for a whole bunch of security features from transport layer security like SSL/TLS, mTLS to application layer security like Basic Authentication (Basic Auth), JWT Authentication, OAuth2, etc. …

In programming, a ‘collection’ is simply an object that groups multiple elements into a single unit. Ballerina, offers a set of collections which could use to store any kind of objects. Arrays ‘Array’ is a sequential data structure consisting of values of the same type. Ballerina Arrays are indexed 0-based. We…

Today, there are numerous programming languages and frameworks for creating REST APIs and Microservices. Among such frameworks, Spring Boot has become one of the most widely adopted Java frameworks. A couple of weeks back, the Ballerina team announced the General Availability of the SwanLake version of the Ballerina Programming language…

The need for overriding dependencies in a programming language is a fundamental need for many scenarios. Here we are discussing how to override dependencies in Ballerina. If you are new to Ballerina, I recommend you to play with it before reading this article. …

Behind the screens of a programming language — part 2 — The Language Server Protocol(LSP) developed by Microsoft, is a protocol that standardizes the communication between language tooling and development tools. This article is a continuation of the practical aspects of my previous blog in which I have discussed the basics of the LSP. The following sections showcase how to implement…

Simulation of real-time data updates with WebSockets. — Messaging on the Internet The internet is built on the HTTP standard for communicating data between clients and servers. Although HTTP is widely-used, when there is a requirement to support the continuous transmission of data streams or real-time updates between client and server, repeatedly making regular HTTP requests will slow things down. Before discussing…

Practical Guide with Ballerina Programming Language — With all the recent advancements in the API architecture and the requirements for the real-time web, the event-driven API design is playing a key role. Webhooks and WebSub are two major protocols in event-driven API design. So, in this article, I will discuss Webhook and Websub and how to implement…

For those who don’t know what ballerina or LSP is, the short story is ballerina is an open-source programming language and LSP (Language Server Protocol) is a communication protocol used by source code editors to communicate with servers that provide programming language-specific features such as code completion, refactoring and code…

Secured Order Management System with JWT Auth — Overview This article explains how to secure your microservices deployment practically with JWT Auth using Ballerina programming language. Ballerina has first-class support for a whole bunch of security features from transport layer security like SSL/TLS, mTLS to application layer security like Basic Authentication (Basic Auth), JWT Authentication, OAuth2, etc. …