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Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
Setting up new infrastructure can be a tedious process. It doesn’t matter whether it is on-premise or in the cloud. Many organisations have a long process of filling forms, obtaining budget clearance, asking for priority and verifying everything is set up correctly. The cloud promises us to make things better, and at least it got a lot faster. But still, we can make many mistakes in this manual process, and if we want to duplicate a deliberately crafted setup things become even harder….
— Read more... →DevNexus Day 2: Metrics, Monolith Decomposition
Together with four “AwesomeSauce” colleagues from Info Support, I’m attending DevNexus this year. For me, it’s the second time I’m here, as I spoke here in 2018, too. Next to delivering my own “React in 50 minutes” session I’m attending some sessions to update with new technology advancements. After a great first day, let’s move on to the second (and last) day.
— Read more... →DevNexus Day 1: WebAssembly, Productivity
Together with four “AwesomeSauce” colleagues from Info Support, I’m attending DevNexus this year. For me, it’s the second time I’m here, as I spoke here in 2018, too. Next to delivering my own “React in 50 minutes” session I’m attending some sessions to update with new technology advancements.
— Read more... →Customise the Maven Release process
Shipping a new release of software usually involves quite a few steps. Depending on the type of software, this may be something you rarely do. Thus, it often involves manual steps. This is not necessary! Maven has had its “Release Plugin” since approximately April 2007; yes, that’s over 12 years! It has served both the Maven project and many other software projects.
— Read more... →Devoxx - Day One
This year I’m returning to Devoxx. I’m planning to write some notes on interesting sessions or other content. Also, I’ll be delivering my talk on Transport Layer Security tomorrow. But today was a day of catching up with old friends and attending a talk or two.
One talk really caught my attention: “Implementing a simple JVM in Rust”.
— Read more... →Building a programming language on GraalVM (Part 1)
If you’ve followed recent developments in the Java ecosystem, you must know GraalVM. Many blog posts cover how you can build native executables from Java source code. This is indeed exciting: your program starts faster, and consumes less memory. Other popular topics include building Java applications that run code in other languages. You can run JavaScript, Python, Ruby or R code in the JVM. But there’s more: in fact you can run any language inside the JVM! Are you curious how? Continue reading…
— Read more... →Code One - Day Three
Third day on Code One already! Highlights for today: the Community Keynote, a trip to GitHub and a session called “Sarcasm as a Service”.
— Read more... →Code One - Day Two
On this second day at Code One I have again visited interesting sessions. One on security by Jim Manicode and one on cash (or the lack thereof) in Sweden.
— Read more... →Code One - Day One
This year I’m returning to Oracle Code One (formerly JavaOne) for the third time. I’m planning to write some notes on interesting sessions or other content.
— Read more... →How did I get that library?!
When you’re writing Java applications, chances are you’re using Maven for dependency management. It lets you declare the artifacts you need to build your application. Those artifacts also depend on other artifacts. This means you have transitive dependencies - dependencies you didn’t declare yourself but you need them anyway.
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