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Software Development

Connecting the ESP8266 chip to your network
I’m working on a project to automate our chicken coop (see my article Getting over myself and doing things the…
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Enterprise Java

Spring Kafka Producer/Consumer sample
My objective here is to show how Spring Kafka provides an abstraction to raw Kafka Producer and Consumer API’s that is…
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Software Development

Open Source – it’s not about free as in beer or speech
I’ve been thinking a bit about open source software, and why I’m so attracted to it. Often when people talk…
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Software Development

CQRS increases consistency
I hear this argument a lot. As the author of a framework that strongly encourages CQRS, I obviously am biased…
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DevOps

Understanding AWS Billing and EC2 reservations
One of the most confusing things I approached when working with AWS was the Billing. There are tools which should…
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Enterprise Java

Create JNDI resources for JUnit testing using Spring
Until recently, I had static methods setting up my in memory database (HSQLDB). I called these methods in setUp/tearDown of…
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Software Development

Microservices vs. SOA
These days, there are a lot of discussions about Microservices at the workplace or in tech talks. And if you…
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Enterprise Java

OAuth 2.0 Token Management with Stormpath and Spring Boot
Building Identity Management, including authentication and authorization? Try Stormpath! Our REST API and robust Java SDK support can eliminate your…
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Software Development

5 things I have learnt working as a Consultant Software Architect
I have been working as a Software Engineer for several years, however I have been a full time consultant only…
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