Apache Pulsar vs. Apache Kafka,Hi all, do you have experience with either Apache Pulsar or Kafka for stream processing? Mainly I want to use the underlying distributed log from Pul...

10 Java security best practices, In this cheat sheet edition, we’re going to focus on ten Java security best practices for both open source maintainers and developers. Although mo...

Stack to the Future - How I migrated an automated build from Maven to Gradle., Introduction When I was introduced to the GazePlay project, I jumped at the chance to try to fix some...

Dependency Hell, Traditional Best Practices It is typically accepted that any code that is needed in more than one place should be abstracted away somewhere. Classes with repeated ...

Java microservices and how to become cloud-native,Many of us are on a journey from traditional monolithic applications to a more distributed cloud-native microservices architecture...

Top 5 Programming Languages for Software Development,Perhaps the simplest approaches to pick the best programming language for web development by tuning in to what the market says....

Augmenting a Spring Data repository through delegation,I have recently written several posts about Kotlin’s delegation. In doing so, I realised a useful way to apply it to Spring ...

Mitigate Null Pointer Exceptions in Java with Optional class,Null pointer exceptions are quite annoying as every java developer should have faced at least once. As the code grows, ...

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Adding Support to Java InvocationHandler Implementations for Interface Default Methods,Java 8 introduced default methods to interfaces. Existing InvocationHandler implementations w...

The buzzwords religion,Buzzwords are everywhere. Software engineering is full of them as well. By itself buzzwords are harmless, they are just labels, something known to many, shor...

Feedback on Small Java Package,I just finished a small package built to intelligently infer schemata ('schemas') of CSV files: awwsmm / scheme A minimal package for intelligently i...