The so-called (and marketing-branded) “blockchain technology” is promised to revolutionize every industry. Anything, they say, will become decentralized, free from middle men or government control. Services will thrive on variousContinue reading
It is likely that you are developing some form of (web/RESTful) API, and in case it is publicly-facing (or even when it’s internal), you normally want to rate-limit it somehow.Continue reading
Spring Boot Admin is a cool dashboard for monitoring your spring boot applications. However, setting it up is not that trivial. The documentation outlines two options: Including a client libraryContinue reading
“What are some areas you are particularly interested in” – recruiters (head-hunters) tend to ask that question a lot. I don’t have a good answer for that – I’ll knowContinue reading
Sometimes we need to let users sign something electronically. Often people understand that as placing your handwritten signature on the screen somehow. Depending on the jurisdiction, that may be fine,Continue reading
What happens when a senior developer becomes…more senior? It often happens that they get promoted to “architect”. Sometimes an architect doesn’t have to have been a developer, if they seeContinue reading
Yesterday I gave a talk that went through all the aspects of using messages queues. I’ve previously written that “you probably don’t need a message queue” – now the conclusionContinue reading
Most system have some sort of event logs – i.e. what has happened in the system and who did it. And sometimes it has a dual existence – once asContinue reading
It turns out that Spring Boot doesn’t mix well with the standard Spring MVC @EnableWebMvc. What happens when you add the annotation is that spring boot autoconfiguration is disabled. TheContinue reading
What’s a distributed cache? A solution that is “deployed” in an application (typically a web application) and that makes sure data is loaded from memory, rather than from disk (whichContinue reading