This article is inspired by a quick chat I had today with a colleague. He is a very experienced Java Developer whom I respect for his knowledge. Still … he hasn’t heard about Testcontainers. What are Testcontainers exactly? Let’s cut to the chase. Testcontainers is a Java Library … | Continue reading
Lately, I had time to think a bit about work. Due to the crisis, I will be switching to a new project again. I had a few weeks off work and was trying to wrap my head around past projects and things I liked or disliked about them. In this... | Continue reading
This might sound really controversial, but I think there should be times were developers should be free to do whatever they want. To make it even more controversial, I think it is beneficial when this time is not during their leisure time but on company time. Why should I pay... | Continue reading
Twitter WebSocket Stream with Spring Boot | Continue reading
... you're not how much code you have in repositories, you're not the follower count of your GitHub Profile, you're not the size of your Hadoop Cluster, you're not your fucking Tensorflow. | Continue reading
... you're not how much code you have in repositories, you're not the follower count of your GitHub Profile, you're not the size of your Hadoop Cluster, you're not your fucking Tensorflow. | Continue reading
Personally, I am always on the hunt for good programming books. Books are an opinionated topic, therefore I am quite sure some people would disagree with this selection. Nonetheless let’s have a look at my opinionated selection of the best Java books to read in 2019. You might re … | Continue reading
Having a look at my LinkedIn Network, I realized there are a few ways of growing your Software Engineering Career. I am trying to keep my personal opinion out of the middle part and only get involved in the end of the article. Working for a Single Company There are... | Continue reading
Not sure if I am writing this article for the broader public or only myself. I guess at least this could be a fun read for myself in about a year or so. During the last few months I got a few suggestive comments from a few people that they... | Continue reading
You are also not Spotify, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook or one of several other big tech companies I could mention here. If I have excluded anybody reading this - I am sorry.Maybe you will still enjoy the read. For everyone else: This article is probably for you. To give you … | Continue reading
You are also not Spotify, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook or one of several other big tech companies I could mention here. If I have excluded anybody reading this - I am sorry.Maybe you will still enjoy the read. For everyone else: This article is probably for you. To give you … | Continue reading
You are also not Spotify, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook or any other big tech company I could mention here. If I now excluded anybody reading this - I am sorry.Maybe you still enjoy the read. For the others: This article is probably for you. To give you all some context:... | Continue reading
You are also not Spotify, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook or any other big tech company I could mention here. If I now excluded anybody reading this - I am sorry.Maybe you still enjoy the read. For the others: This article is probably for you. To give you all some context:... | Continue reading
Over the years I read a lot of articles and stories about the differences between Microservices Architectures and Monolithic Architecture (Monoliths). Today I am about to tell you my own version. What is a Monolith i.e. a monolithic architecture? A monolithic application, let’s c … | Continue reading
1. It is about the people! Software needs to solve people’s problems. What really separates good from great developers is mostly their way of communicating with others and thinking in problems. 2. Make friends and be someone you would to have as a co-worker - Be positive! You are … | Continue reading
Everything you need to get started with Redis Cache within Spring Boot 2. Using Spring Data Redis, we will cover everything needed to write a production ready service using Caching. | Continue reading
In every industry knowledge decays. Things you learnt in the past are not relevant any more. Software Engineering is the industry where this happens at the fastest pace. | Continue reading
Caching with Redis is really great for the performance, but once a key is gone and the original ressource is not available we are done. Let's change that | Continue reading
More is not always better. This is a story how I ended up on passing on a 55% salary increase by switching jobs. | Continue reading
After reading the title: It is ‘screwing’ – not what you might have though 🙂Preword: This article is about failing dependencies in form of external (Web)APIs. During the last weeks at work, I had to learn this the hard way:Dependencies are screwing you over and over again … | Continue reading