In defence of pedantic tools
We aim to please the customer at short notice and always overestimate our capacity to comprehend a system as it gets more complex. That’s a recipe for technical debt. Read more
Posts about Java
Mocks or the real thing? Tips for better unit testing
This is not a tutorial about how to exploit the advanced features in modern mocking frameworks. Rather, it’s a warning that these features work around design decisions that were wrong to begin with. Read more
Android App – Conversion from Java to Kotlin
07/13/17
This instruction gives some insights on how to convert an existing Android Java app project to Kotlin. Read more
Fine tuning embedded jetty inside of spark framework.
07/06/17
Tech is easy when complexity is hidden away. Hiding complexity means some things are either unreachable anymore or at least... Read more
Kotlin and Spring: Working with JPA and data classes
06/16/17
I’ve been looking at Kotlin for a while now and since Spring will support Kotlin as a first class language... Read more
Scaling Spring Boot Apps on Docker Windows Containers with Ansible: A Complete Guide incl Spring Cloud Netflix and Docker Compose
05/30/17
Provision a Docker Windows Container with Ansible? No Problem! But wasn´t Docker meant for more than one Container?! Don´t we... Read more
Running Spring Boot Apps on Docker Windows Containers with Ansible: A Complete Guide incl Packer, Vagrant & Powershell
04/06/17
This is a crazy world. It´s not only possible to make Ansible provision Windows machines. No! There are Docker Windows... Read more
CRUD operations on Spring REST resources with Kotlin
In this practical, hands-on post I would like to share some of my experience in building REST services wih JSON... Read more
Building a distributed Runtime for Interactive Queries in Apache Kafka with Vert.x
03/20/17
Interactive Queries are a fairly new feature of Apache Kafka Streams that provides programmatic access to the internal state held... Read more