@cvesters
Senior Software Engineer
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Mar 21 · 4 min read · In Java, we have two types of exceptions, checked exceptions and runtime exceptions (I am not including the Error class). The only difference between these two types, is that the checked exception is part of the signature of the method and must be ha...
Join discussionMar 8 · 6 min read · When designing an API, we tend to only focus on successful requests. This often leads to error responses that are not useful and often don't contain any information. I am guilty of this myself, and in my own projects I typically only use the HTTP sta...
Join discussionFeb 22 · 4 min read · Modern frameworks such as Spring are typically very service oriented. Objects are just there to store date. When you start working with business domain objects you actually do have somewhere the logic belongs. But does it also make sense? A service i...
Join discussionFeb 8 · 5 min read · As I have mentioned in some earlier blog posts, the usage of Spring puts a lot of focus of having your logic in services. While this makes sense for some things, it comes with the big issue that your objects don't enforce anything and if you bypass y...
Join discussionJan 25 · 3 min read · I have an application which contains data structures that did not fit nicely in an SQL database due to the nested structure of the data, so instead I opted to only store the metadata in a PostgreSQL database and the actual content as a plain JSON fil...
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