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
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
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
If you are building a service that stores sensitive data, your number one concern should be how to protect it. What IS sensitive data? There are some obvious examples, likeContinue reading
A smart card is a device that holds a private key securely without letting it out of its storage. The chip on your credit card is a “smart card” (yup,Continue reading