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Using Elasticsearch 5, we had a field like drivers license number where values may include special characters and inconsistent upper/lower case behavior as the values were entered by the users with limited validation.  For example, these are hypothetical values: CA-123-456-789 WI.12345.6789 tx123456789 az-123-xyz-456 … In our application, the end user need to search by that field. We had a business ...

Lead-in This article talks about WebAssembly and can be read to get the first glimpse of it. At the same time, I articulate my opinion and doubts. The summary is that WebAssembly is an interesting approach and we will see what it will become. Java in the Browser, the past There was a time when we could run Java applets ...

The traditional way of integrating object-oriented back-end with an external system is through data transfer objects, which are serialized into JSON before going out and deserialized when coming back. This way is as much popular as it is wrong. The serialization part should be replaced by printers, which I explained earlier. Here is my take on deserialization, which should be ...

While microservice architecture might not be a silver bullet for all systems, it definitely has its advantages, especially when building a complex system with a lot of different components. Of course, if you’re considering microservices, you have to give serious thought to how the different services will communicate. In this post, we’ll look at how to set up an Apache ...

We had centralized applications. We introduced with distributed applications. Now, we have decentralized applications. Will it replace the whole system? I remember the emerge of NoSQL databases when I think about the future of data stores like IPFS which are designed as a P2P data store. One was claiming that NoSQL databases will replace SQL databases and another opposite of ...

Spock is a testing and specification framework for Java and Groovy applications.  Spock is: Extremely expressive Facilitates the Given / When / Then syntax for your tests compatible with most IDEs and CI Servers. Sounds interesting? Well you can start playing with Spock very quickly by paying a quick visit to the Spock web console.  When you have a little test ...

In one of my previous posts I showed how to run an ADF essentials application on Tomcat in a docker container. I am using this approach primarily for sample applications as a convenient way to share a proof-of-concept. In this post I am going to describe how to enrich the docker container with Oracle DB so my samples can be ...

Because Java-based applications are often used in a wide variety of operating systems and environments, it is not uncommon for Java developers to run into issues related to character-based input and output. Blog posts covering these issues include The Policeman’s Horror: Default Locales, Default Charsets, and Default Timezones; Annotating JDK default data; Encoding issues: Solutions for linux and within Java ...

If you read my scaling agile series, you can see that becoming an agile organization requires seeing your organization as a system with a culture. You can start with teams, move to programs and the product part of the organization. If you don’t also address the cultural problems of rewards, you won’t continue with your agile transformation. You know why ...