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Enterprise Java
Enabling Entity and Query cache in Hibernate
1. Introduction Amongst the performance related tasks I have been through, this has been one of them. The concern is that if…
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Desktop Java
Shadow Fields vs. Property Accessor Interface Round 2
If you guys haven’t noticed a (light-hearted) showdown between Dirk Lemmerman and me, let me quickly mention how we got to this point.…
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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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