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Before you build some software you’re often faced with the swirling void of possibilities. This can lead to: Options paralysisImagining a huge systemThe erroneous desire to build a frameworkA lot of effort going in, but no progress or results coming out As a wise leader once said to me: The hallmark of a great software developer is their ability to ...

You may be thinking of sharing a Jenkins server, perhaps you’re worried about: Who has the time to do admin on multiple servers?How can we be sure that we don’t open a gaping chasm (it happens) on our network making our code and test environment public?Ensuring people use a standard toolsetAvoiding the cost of multiple copies of the same services ...

As a Baeldung editor, I had the pleasure working with an author on an article on Common Concurrency Pitfalls in Java. This is a great read, but assumes a certain amount of competence on the part of the developer. There are a couple of things I’ve seen which are instant concurrency fails. They’re easy to add to the code, and ...

This is the third in a series of articles looking at the type system for Inversion of Coupling Control to provide composition. The previous articles covered: First-Class Procedure type systemFirst-Class Module This article will look at taking the theory into practice.  It will use the concepts to build an application composing Effects from various Effect libraries. Note that the Effects ...

Since the very beginning, Vaadin was a cornerstone and a crucial part of the CUBA Platform UI. Thanks to its innovative approach, it helped CUBA to bring enterprise UI development to a very promising (and default nowadays) WEB land. One of the most exciting parts of Vaadin is that the whole development is isomorphic and being done primarily using Java, ...

Here’s a curiosity. In my current project we’re looking at making HTTP PATCH requests. If we’re strictly following the REST standards, we might do things differently, but in our use case, a PATCH is a partial update, caused by discovering some fields of our object to have changed. Imagine the object: { "id": 123, "status": "ACTIVE", "isInternational": false, "customer": { ...

How many times you, as a software expert, saw some software or process and thought “damn, this can be done so much better”. Yes, a lot. But why, since large organizations spend a lot of money on IT? Is it because software is too complex, is it because of organizational issues, is it legacy software, or just the way things ...

“Planning has rapidly diminishing returns: plan less, do more, learn more, redesign governance to kill early and often.” Happy new year! – There is always a special responsibility that comes with the first blog post of a new year. Fortunately Tom Cagley of SpamCast fame asked me a fantasy question: If there is one piece of advice you would give ...

We all are aware of profile management in Spring Boot and the flexibility it provides in configuring our applications for different environments. The other powerful aspect of this is that at any given time we can have multiple active profiles. The advantage this gives is that we can mix the deployment environment profile along with business use case related profiles. ...