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Enterprise Java
Learning Lucene
I am currently working with a team starting a new project based on Lucene. While most of the time I…
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Desktop Java
Shadow Fields vs. Property Accessor Interface
Carl Dea recently followed up on a blog post of mine called Save Memory! Use Shadow Fields for Properties. In…
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Kotlin
10 Features I Wish Java Would Steal From the Kotlin Language
This article is overdue. After the hype around the release of Kotlin 1.0 has settled, let’s have a serious look…
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Career
“It Never Hurts to Apply”… except when it does
Job seekers are sometimes reluctant to apply for positions that might be considered a stretch for their abilities or qualifications,…
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Enterprise Java
Continuous Stress Testing for your JAX-RS (and JavaEE) applications with Gatling + Gradle + Jenkins Pipeline
In this post I am going to explain how to use Gatling project to write stress tests for your JAX-RS Java EE endpoints,…
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Software Development
How the Fear of Automation Holds Your Team Back
Automation is a term which was coined in the last century during the industrial revolution. It originates from the word…
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Software Development
12 years, 12 lessons working at ThoughtWorks
I’ve been at ThoughtWorks for 12 years. Who would have imagined? Instead of writing about my reflections on the past…
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Software Development
Static Methods are Fine
Today, we’ll be talking about something controversial: static methods. I have yet to read anything that says static methods are…
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