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DevOps
Prioritizing a Technical Roadmap Against a Product Roadmap
In software development, you’ll often hear the term “roadmap” thrown about. If discussed carelessly, it could appear as though there…
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Agile
When OKRs Become MBOs and Accountability, Part 1
I have personal and professional goals. Sometimes, I state them as objectives: complete this book, learn that thing. Those are personal…
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Core Java
Fixing the if smell
From time to time we might end up with some huge if statements in our codebase. Those statements have to…
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Android Core
Build an SMS notification system with Android Things and Twilio
In this tutorial, we will cover how to build an SMS notification system with Android Things and Twilio. The main…
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Core Java
Deferred Execution with Java’s Predicate
In the previous posts “Deferred Execution with Java’s Supplier” and “Deferred Execution with Java’s Consumer“, I looked at easily deferring…
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Enterprise Java
Spring State Machine: what is it and do you need it?
State machine is a model of computation based on the finite states, as Wikipedia very obligingly says. Usually there are…
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Enterprise Java
Model Serving: Stream Processing vs. RPC / REST with Java, gRPC, Apache Kafka, TensorFlow
Machine Learning / Deep Learning models can be used in different ways to do predictions. My preferred way is to…
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Software Development
The value of deliberate logging
Your logs tell a story – or at least they should be. It is safe to assume that all software…
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Core Java
Reduce GC Overhead With These 5 Simple Hacks
Five simple ways to write code that’s more memory efficient, without spending more time on it or reducing code readability…
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