Simple Spring Boot Admin Setup
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
Developers and Ethics
“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
Electronic Signature Using The WebCrypto API
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
“Architect” Should Be a Role, Not a Position
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
Overview of Message Queues [slides]
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
Event Logs
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
Spring Boot, @EnableWebMvc And Common Use-Cases
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
Distributed Cache – Overview
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
Distributing Election Volunteers In Polling Stations
There’s an upcoming election in my country, and I’m a member of the governing body of one of the new parties. As we have a lot of focus on technologyContinue reading
“Infinity” is a Bad Default Timeout
Many libraries wrap some external communication. Be it a REST-like API, a message queue, a database, a mail server or something else. And therefore you have to have some timeoutContinue reading