Sr. Consultant
Chris Tosspon
6 years at Object Partners
11 years of Technology Experience

Chris is a developer passionate about solving complex problems. With his knowledge of cryptography and advanced hardware attacks, he pursued the life of a hardware hacker before turning his attention on software development and engineering.

Chris builds applications using Spring, Java, Groovy, and has experience with most of the popular Java testing frameworks, e.g. Spock, TestNG, JUnit.

Posts written by Chris
Aug 07, 2018
flux, groovy, Java, kafka, Reactive, REST, spring, sse
Apache Kafka and Reactive Spring Boot
This post is a continuation of the two part series exploring Apache Ignite, Apache Kafka, and Reactive Spring Boot concepts. This part covers the use of Reactive Kafka consumers to return live database events to […]
Jul 26, 2018
groovy, Ignite, kafka, spring, spring-data
Streaming Apache Ignite changes in Apache Kafka Topics
This is a two part series exploring Apache Ignite, Apache Kafka, and Reactive Spring Boot concepts. This part covers the setting up of Apache Ignite as a datasource and using Apache Kafka as a streaming […]
Dec 20, 2017
sftp, spring, spring integration
Dynamic SFTP Connection Factory for Spring Integration
I recently had the opportunity to dive into a Spring Integration project that presented an interesting challenge: the creation of a outbound SFTP Connection Factory at runtime based on Spring Batch jobs. In a simple […]
Dec 14, 2017
groovy, jackson, json, spring, trait
Serializing Groovy Traits with Jackson
Working on a Groovy and Spring Boot project, we encountered a serialization issue on an object that implemented a Groovy trait. The object would be serialized correctly until the JsonFormat annotation was used on one […]
Aug 22, 2017
apache-camel, Camel, groovy, spock, spring boot, Testing, unit testing
Unit Testing Camel Routes with Spock
Introduction Apache Camel’s variety of components and message routing logic capabilities makes testing a requirement to ensure your routes are performing as expected. Since Camel routes are built within a context, it usually follows that […]