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Agile
Becoming an Agile Leader, Part 1: Define Your Why
Your agile transformation isn’t proceeding the way you thought. People use the right agile words, but they’re not changing how…
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Core Java
Deprecating Java’s Finalizer
JDK-8165641 (“Deprecate Object.finalize”) has been opened to “deprecate Object.finalize()” because “finalizers are inherently problematic and their use can lead to…
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Enterprise Java
Consumer Driven Testing with Pact & Spring Boot
Recently a colleague of mine stumbled across Pact.io, Our current application had grown to over 50 services and we we’re starting…
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Agile
Product Manager vs. Product Owner
For many years, people have debated what the difference between the product manager and the product owner role is, if…
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Enterprise Java
Apache Lucene 7.0 Is Coming Soon!
The Apache Lucene project will likely release its next major release, 7.0, in a few months! Remember that Lucene developers generally try…
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DevOps
Amazon S3 Tutorial – The ULTIMATE Guide (PDF Download)
EDITORIAL NOTE: Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 provides storage…
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Enterprise Java
Beware of slow transaction callbacks in Spring
TL;DR If your application is failing to obtain new database connection, restarting ActiveMQ broker may help. Interested? The problem with…
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Software Development
Security in the Microservices Paradigm
One of the least glamorous aspects of implementing a Microservices architecture is the security. It’s not fun or cool when…
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DevOps
Service Discovery with Java and Database application in Kubernetes
This blog will show how a simple Java application can talk to a database using service discovery in Kubernetes. Service…
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