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Why OOP Is a Bad Fit for Custom Software

Everything in programming is a trade-off. The combination of imperative and (DO)RY is the best one that results in more total code, but more maintainable code.

July 29, 2024

by Greg Hall

· 6,877 Views · 2 Likes

Real-Time Streaming Architectures: A Technical Deep Dive Into Kafka, Flink, and Pinot

While individual components like Kafka, Flink, and Pinot are very powerful, managing them at scale across cloud and on-premises deployments can be operationally complex.

July 28, 2024

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 7,898 Views · 4 Likes

Introduction to Polymorphism With Database Engines in NoSQL Using Jakarta NoSQL

This tutorial covers setting up Helidon with Oracle NoSQL, defining polymorphic entities, and managing JSON data efficiently.

July 26, 2024

by Otavio Santana

CORE

· 5,265 Views · 1 Like

How To Implement a Gateway With Spring Cloud

Learn how to implement a gateway component for a microservice system with the Spring Cloud Gateway package.

July 25, 2024

by Mario Casari

· 9,548 Views · 2 Likes

The Hidden Costs of Lombok in Enterprise Java Solutions

Should enterprises consider Lombok a hero or a villain in disguise? Explore Lombok's benefits and potential drawbacks for enterprise Java solutions.

July 24, 2024

by Karina Varela

· 10,636 Views · 4 Likes

Spring Microservice Tip: Abstracting the Database Hostname With Environment Variable

Secure database connection strings in Spring microservices using environment variables and placeholder expressions for the hostname using the properties file.

July 24, 2024

by Amol Gote

CORE

· 8,329 Views · 3 Likes

JUnit 5 Custom TestListeners

Post your test execution results directly from CI/CD to your Test Management System via Zephyr API via JUnit5 Test Execution Listeners.

July 23, 2024

by Prathyusha Nama

· 5,586 Views · 3 Likes

Enhancing the Visibility of Integration Tests

This article provides practical tips for writing integration tests, focusing on interactions with external services to improve readability and maintenance.

July 22, 2024

by Anton Belyaev

· 4,334 Views · 4 Likes

Navigating the Waves of Concurrency: Exploring Jakarta Concurrency

This tutorial explores Jakarta Concurrency through practical code examples, demonstrating its key features and best practices.

July 22, 2024

by Gautham Krishnan

· 2,688 Views · 1 Like

Setting Up a Local Development Environment With IntelliJ, DevContainers, and Amazon Linux 2023

This tutorial explains how to set up a Java development environment with IntelliJ, DevContainers, and Amazon Linux 2023 for consistent, isolated development.

July 19, 2024

by Mohammed Fazalullah Qudrath

· 14,940 Views · 2 Likes

AWS CDK: Infrastructure as Abstract Data Types, Part 3

At the end of the first part of this CDK series, we promised to demonstrate how to programmatically manage the S3 bucket created as a part of our stack. Let's see it now.

July 18, 2024

by Nicolas Duminil

CORE

· 8,168 Views · 2 Likes

How To Think Simple In Java

This guide aims to help you think simply in Java, emphasizing clean, readable, and maintainable code without sacrificing the power and capabilities of the language.

July 18, 2024

by Reza Ganji

CORE

· 10,914 Views · 13 Likes

AWS CDK: Infrastructure as Abstract Data Types, Part 2

In part 2 of this journey into the CDK world, explore how to use basic building blocks like constructs by taking advantage of Quarkus features.

July 17, 2024

by Nicolas Duminil

CORE

· 7,865 Views · 4 Likes

Dynamic Watermarking With IMGProxy and Apache APISIX

In this post, we implement a watermarking feature with the help of imgproxy. The more I think about it, the more I think they make a match made in Heaven.

July 17, 2024

by Nicolas Fränkel

CORE

· 5,509 Views · 1 Like

How To Convert Common Documents to PNG Image Arrays in Java

Learn how to convert Office documents, PDFs, and 100+ images to an array of PNG images, and review some of the benefits of making PNG conversions over other formats.

July 17, 2024

by Brian O'Neill

CORE

· 5,875 Views · 3 Likes

Virtual Threads: A Game-Changer for Concurrency

In this blog, we'll explore Java Virtual Threads, compare them to traditional platform threads, and provide example code to highlight the differences.

July 16, 2024

by Gautham Krishnan

· 13,356 Views · 6 Likes

Faster Startup With Spring Boot 3.2 and CRaC, Part 1: Automatic Checkpoint

Learn about a 10-fold improvement in startup performance, i.e., a 90% reduction in startup time, when using automatic checkpoint/restore at startup.

July 15, 2024

by Magnus Larsson

· 10,947 Views · 6 Likes

How To Reduce Memory Consumption in Integration Tests With Kafka Using GraalVM

This article details the process of creating a native image for EmbeddedKafka with GraalVM, highlighting its benefits in integration tests.

July 12, 2024

by Anton Belyaev

· 5,915 Views · 1 Like

Dynamic Watermarking on the JVM

Displaying images makes for an interesting problem: on one side, you want to make them publicly available; on the other, you want to protect them against undue use.

July 10, 2024

by Nicolas Fränkel

CORE

· 4,417 Views · 1 Like

Maven Archetypes: Simplifying Project Template Creation

Maven Archetypes enables you to apply best practices within your project or org. Learn how to create archetypes from scratch and based on an existing project.

July 9, 2024

by Gunter Rotsaert

CORE

· 5,768 Views · 8 Likes

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