Best free tools for HTTP API Testing As a backend developer, we always need to do the API test. This article will introduce more than 10 tools to help us for HTTP API testing. SoapUI SoapUI has lived for a long time, especially for Web Services(SOAP API).

The Apache HTTP Server ("httpd") was launched in 1995 and it has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996. It's a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards. Apache is developed and maintained by the Apache…

draw.io draw.io is a collaborative tool for drawing diagrams. It provides online tool and offline desktop application. Key features: Realtime collaboration; Support both online and offline; Store diagrams locally in the browser; Store diagrams with Google Drive, OneDrive, GitHub, GitLab, Dropbox, Notion etc. Many icon packs. ProccessOn ProccessOn is the best online…

This article explains how to install the zookeeper and kafka cluster. For convenience, it will just run the cluster on single server, but it's the same for multiple servers case. Introduction Key Concept of Zookeeper ZooKeeper is a distributed coordination service that provides a hierarchical key-value store used to maintain configuration information, provide distributed synchronization…

It's very common we need to download files from Internet and there are several ways to do in Java. Let me introduce them. Java IO We use BufferedInputStream to read and FileOutputStream to write to the local file: private static void javaIO() { try {…

I have created a Java library for Google Bard that can help us make a simple call to ask questions and get answers. Now I integrated the Java library into the Spring Boot application. So that we can make it publicly available to others. Add Dependencies Add the pkslow google-bard to the…

Google Bard is Google's experimental, conversational, AI chat service. It is meant to function similarly to ChatGPT, with the biggest difference being that Google's service will pull its information from the web. I want to use Google Bard automatically in a easier way, so I built a Java library for…

We had tried out the Google Bard with browser, more details here: Try out Google Bard, Will Google Bard beat the ChatGPT?. Now we want to automate the Chatting with code, so I used Python to try a interactive chatbot locally. Get the Session ID For security, we need to access Google Bard with…

Give a try on Google Bard Google has begun opening up the Google Bard(An AI Chat Solution) to public. I joined the waitlist and soon got the chance to have a try on Google Bard. Just open the page: https://bard.google.com/ We can see it still under development as an experimental product. Let ask some questions: (1)…