Jakub Holy

Jakub is an experienced Java[EE] developer working for a lean & agile consultancy in Norway. He is interested in code quality, developer productivity, testing, and in how to make projects succeed.

DevOps
Jakub HolyFebruary 20th, 2014
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The Risks Of Big-Bang Deployments And Techniques For Step-wise Deployment
If you ever need to persuade management why it might be better to deploy a larger change in multiple stages…
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Enterprise Java
Jakub HolyFebruary 8th, 2014
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JBoss Modules Suck, It’s Impossible To Use Custom Resteasy/JAX-RS Under JBoss 7
Since JBoss EAP 6.1 / AS 7.2.0 is modular and you can exclude what modules are visible to your webapp,…
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Scala
Jakub HolyNovember 21st, 2013
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Surfacing Hidden Design: Seeking A Better Alternative To Interrelated Mutable Fields
What is better, a bunch of mutable boolean fields and methods operating on them, or an explicit expression of the…
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Core Java
Jakub HolySeptember 24th, 2013
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Simplicity vs. Robustness – Demonstrated On Lock File Handling
Today we will discuss a conflict between the design values of keeping things simple, stupid (KISS) and robustness, between underdesign…
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Enterprise Java
Jakub HolyJune 28th, 2013
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Making Sense Out of Datomic, The Revolutionary Non-NoSQL Database
I have finally managed to understand one of the most unusual databases of today, Datomic, and would like to share…
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Software Development
Jakub HolyJune 3rd, 2013
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Simple vs. Easy: Writing A Generic Code To Avoid Duplication (Representation of Data To Import)
In our batch jobs for data import we had many similar classes for holding the data being imported. Technically they…
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Software Development
Jakub HolyMay 30th, 2013
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Bad Code: Too Many Object Conversions Between Application Layers And How to Avoid Them
Have you ever worked with an application where you had to copy data from one object to another and another…
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Enterprise Java
Jakub HolyMay 27th, 2013
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Accessing An Artifact’s Maven And SCM Versions At Runtime
You can easily tell Maven to include the version of the artifact and its Git/SVN/… revision in the JAR manifest…
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Software Development
Jakub HolyJanuary 16th, 2013
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The Sprinting Centipede Strategy: How to Improve Software Without Breaking It
Our code has been broken for weeks. Compiler errors, failing tests, incorrect behavior plagued our team. Why? Because we have…
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