Year: 2014
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Career
Independent Contracting: How to Get There
The concept of self-employment is appealing for many technologists, but the path to getting there isn’t always clear. Independent contractors may cite several attributes of…
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Software Development
Tiny, Tiny Steps – Experience Report Developing A Feature In Minimal Value-Adding Increments
A post for those who want to see what an iterative, MVP-driven development of a feature looks like. Once upon…
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Scala
Akka Notes – Actor Supervision – 8
Failures are more like a feature among distributed systems. And with Akka’s let it crash fault tolerance model, you could…
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Enterprise Java
Spring Rest API with Swagger – Exposing documentation
Once you create API documentation it is important to make it available to the stakeholders. In ideal case, this published documentation…
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Software Development
An entity modelling strategy for scaling optimistic locking
Introduction Application-level repeatable reads are suitable for preventing lost updates in web conversations. Enabling entity-level optimistic locking is fairly easy.…
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Core Java
Java Annotations Tutorial – The ULTIMATE Guide (PDF Download)
EDITORIAL NOTE: In this post, we feature a comprehensive Java Annotations Tutorial. Annotations in Java are a major feature and…
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Enterprise Java
Using the Neo4j browser with Embedded Neo4j
There are times when you have an application using Neo4j in embedded mode but also need to play around with…
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Core Java
Five Reasons Why You Should Keep Your Package Dependencies Cycle Free
If you are so unlucky to work with me in a project, you will suffer from the rule that all…
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Enterprise Java
Batching (collapsing) requests in Hystrix
Hystrix has an advanced feature of collapsing (or batching) requests. If two or more commands run similar request at the…
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