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Enterprise Java
Writing Tests for Data Access Code – Unit Tests Are Waste
A few years ago I was one of those developers who write unit tests for my data access code. I…
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Software Development
Lessons Learned in Automated Testing
I want to discuss some takeaways from my role as a Quality Assurance (QA) Software Developer. My experiences in QA…
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Software Development
How To Test Your Tests
When we write tests, we focus on the scenario we want to test, and then write that test. Pretty simple,…
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Career
Do Software Developers Really Need Degrees?
When I first started out my career as a software developer, I didn’t have a degree. I took my first…
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Core Java
Mapping your Entities to DTO’s Using Java 8 Lambda expressions
We all facing the cluttered overhead code when we need to convert our DTO’S to Entities(Hibernate Entities, etc..) and backwards.…
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Software Development
Use Cases for Elasticsearch: Document Store
I’ll be giving an introductory talk about Elasticsearch twice in July, first at Developer Week Nürnberg, then at Java Forum…
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Scala
Making the Reactive Queue durable with Akka Persistence
Some time ago I wrote how to implement a reactive message queue with Akka Streams. The queue supports streaming send…
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Enterprise Java
Common mistakes when using Spring MVC
When I started my career around 10 years ago, Struts MVC was the norm in the market. However, over the…
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Software Development
How We Chose Framework
When you develop your application most of the time you are writing code that deals with some of the resources.…
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