Joseph Gan (@bwgjoseph)

Mastering GitLab Parent‑Child Pipelines: Scalable CI for Multi‑Module Maven Monorepos

Background Recently, I redesigned my team's pipeline running on a multi-module Maven monorepo using GitLab CI. It wasn't that the previous setup was broken, but my team faced a few persistent issues t

Jun 5 · 14 min readbwgjoseph.com

Spring Security's SecurityContext get unexpectedly cleared in a MockMvc Test

Background At work, there’s some test written where I wanted to query the database (repository) after mockMvc request has been made to verify the result. This is a very simple illustration of what it looks like. @SpringBootTest @AutoConfigureMockMvc ...

Jun 14, 2025 · 3 min readbwgjoseph.com

Setting up MongoDB with replicas for local development

It's been a long time coming, but I finally came around to set up MongoDB with replicas for local development. TLDR; clone the repository, run docker compose up -d, and you are good to go! If you want to know more, continue to read below. Context Run...

Jan 13, 2024 · 3 min readbwgjoseph.com

Lesson learned while using Taskfile to invoke PowerShell command

Context I recently came across TaskFile and wanted to use it to automate some of my workflows, which underlying invokes PowerShell commands. However, I faced several errors while doing so, and this post is to reflect on it, and hopefully help myself ...

Oct 30, 2023 · 4 min readbwgjoseph.com

Reclaim disk space used by Docker Desktop (WSL2)

Problem I was always out of disk space in my C drive, and even though I clear my stuff often, I notice that my space is never reclaimed, instead, it kept going down. I used WizTree to view which file is taking up my disk space, and I noticed this No...

Oct 21, 2023 · 2 min readbwgjoseph.com

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Mastering GitLab Parent‑Child Pipelines: Scalable CI for Multi‑Module Maven Monorepos

Spring Security's SecurityContext get unexpectedly cleared in a MockMvc Test

Setting up MongoDB with replicas for local development

Lesson learned while using Taskfile to invoke PowerShell command

Reclaim disk space used by Docker Desktop (WSL2)

Joseph Gan

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Joseph Gan's blogs

Mastering GitLab Parent‑Child Pipelines: Scalable CI for Multi‑Module Maven Monorepos

Spring Security's SecurityContext get unexpectedly cleared in a MockMvc Test

Setting up MongoDB with replicas for local development

Lesson learned while using Taskfile to invoke PowerShell command

Reclaim disk space used by Docker Desktop (WSL2)

Joseph Gan

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Joseph Gan's blogs

Mastering GitLab Parent‑Child Pipelines: Scalable CI for Multi‑Module Maven Monorepos

Spring Security's SecurityContext get unexpectedly cleared in a MockMvc Test

Setting up MongoDB with replicas for local development

Lesson learned while using Taskfile to invoke PowerShell command

Reclaim disk space used by Docker Desktop (WSL2)

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Joseph Gan

About

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Joseph Gan's blogs

Mastering GitLab Parent‑Child Pipelines: Scalable CI for Multi‑Module Maven Monorepos

Spring Security's SecurityContext get unexpectedly cleared in a MockMvc Test

Setting up MongoDB with replicas for local development

Lesson learned while using Taskfile to invoke PowerShell command

Reclaim disk space used by Docker Desktop (WSL2)