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Core Java
From Imperative to Pure-Functional and Back Again: Monads vs. Scoped Continuations
This post accompanies this video and won’t make too much sense without it Last month I gave a talk at the…
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Enterprise Java
Installing PostgreSQL PL/Java as a PostgreSQL Extension
In 2011 I wrote a series of articles on PostgreSQL PL/Java. The basic information is still solid but there is…
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Scala
Easy validation in Scala using Scalaz, Readers and ValidationNel
I’m working on a new book for Packt which shows how you can use various Scala frameworks to create REST…
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Core Java
Making Thread Dumps Intelligent
Long back I had learnt about something called Log MDC, and I was a big fan of it. I was…
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Enterprise Java
Hibernate: use join table alias on sqlRestriction
When using hibernate in case of complex queries there is the need to use sql. Therefore sqlRestrictions come to the…
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Software Development
Interface over-segregation
Programmers easily spot bloated interfaces, and usually carry with them an assortment of, “Knives and stabbing weapons,” for just such…
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Software Development
Mysql versions prior to 5.7 do not fully support two phase commit
While doing some tests for the recently released generic JCA adapter which is capable of binding remote calls to microservices…
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DevOps
Getting started with Docker from a developer point of view: how to build an environment you can trust
Lately I have spent a lot of thoughts on building repeatable processes that can be trusted. I think that there…
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Core Java
Record Linkage: Playing around with Duke
I’ve become quite interesting in record linkage recently and came across the Duke project which provides some tools to help…
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