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Agile
Capacity Planning and the Project Portfolio
I was problem-solving with a potential client the other day. They want to manage their project portfolio. They use Jira,…
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Software Development
Infeasible software projects are launched all the time
Infeasible software projects are launched all the time and teams are continually caught up in them, but what is the real…
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Software Development
Don’t waste time on Code Reviews
Less than half of development teams do code reviews and the other half are probably not getting as much out…
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DevOps
Route 53 Benchmark: The New AWS Geolocation’s Surprising Results
Latency vs. Geolocation: Testing DNS configurations across multiple EC2 regions using AWS Route 53 If you’re using the AWS stack,…
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Software Development
Writing Tests for Data Access Code – Data Matters
When we write tests for our data access code, we use datasets for two different purposes: …
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Enterprise Java
The anatomy of Hibernate dirty checking
Introduction The persistence context enqueues entity state transitions that get translated to database statements upon flushing. For managed entities, Hibernate…
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Core Java
Debugging OpenJDK
Sometimes debugging Java code is not enough and we need to step over the native part of Java. I spent…
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Scala
Akka Cluster with Docker containers
This article will show you how to build docker images that contain a single akka cluster application. You will be able…
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Enterprise Java
JPA Tutorial – Setting Up JPA in a Java SE Environment
JPA stands for Java Persistence API, which basically is a specification that describes a way to persist data into a persistent storage,…
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