- You’re not a compiler!
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At conferences, it’s common to get gifts at booths. In general, you need to pass some some sort of challenge.
- Dublin Core, what is it good for?
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…compared to Schema, microformats or Open Graph?
I got familiar with Dublin Core metadata when I was architecting solutions around EDM. TIL: it is used in the Semantic Web as well.
- Spring Boot Startup Report
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Quite useful utility for Spring Boot user by Maciej Walkowiak of Spring Boot fame!
Spring Boot Startup Report library generates an interactive Spring Boot application startup report that lets you understand what contributes to the application startup time and perhaps helps to optimize it.
- Postgres webhooks with pgstream
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I fell in love with Change Data Capture while working at and with Hazelcast. Under the cover, it used Debezium.
pgstreamis a standalone solution, which only works on PostgreSQL. - How to Make Your Apps Observable by Default
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Regardless of the advertising at the end, the post makes a good job of explaining observability and its different maturity levels.
- Failover Mechanism in Distributed Systems
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Good article for an overview.
- Announcing Rust 1.81.0
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- Stabilizes
core::error::Error - Stabilizes a new lint level,
expect
- Stabilizes
- Changes to
impl Traitin Rust 2024 -
The combination of generic typing and lifetime makes it sometimes hard to develop express something in Rust. I can understand most of the post but some subtleties escape me; I’m happy the new version of Rust will make it easier for us poor mortals.
- Besides Domain Understanding: Key Things Every Software Architect Should Know
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TL;DR:
- One of the cloud providers—Azure, AWS, GCP
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Message brokers
- Data streaming
- Event Sourcing
- CQRS
- Relational databases, Non-relational databases. Partitioning, sharding
- Cache (e.g., Redis)
- Single and multiple deployment units
- API gateways, load balancers
- Building APIs
- Authentication and authorization
- Monitoring
- Testing, performance, pen-testing
- Security topics
- Monorepos vs. many repos: is there a good answer?
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Note that the whole discussion is in the context of Kubernetes. Most companies won’t ever reach this scale.
- HTMX, Raku and Pico CSS
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TIL: Pico CSS. So far, I use Bootstrap in all my user-facing demos. I like the default good enough look, the CSS classes bloat not so much. Pico CSS seems to be a good alternative.
- Java News Roundup
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- Stream Gatherers
- Project Loom
- TornadoVM
- Helidon
- Micronaut
- Quarkus
- Hibernate Validator
- Clojure
- LangChain4j
- Jox
- Our RNG Git Hash Bug
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Yet Another YAML Trap.
- jitpack.io — Dangerously Simple
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Though I never used Jitpack, I stumbled upon it a couple of years ago and thought the idea really cool. Through the lens of a Supply Chain Security-conscious developer, I radically changed my mind.