@talktotheduck
Yak Barber, duck whisperer, hunter of bugs, feeder of dogs, heap climber, stack explorer and rider of shells
Developer Advocate @ Lightrun, co-founder @ Codename One. Java Rockstar, open source hacker, blogger and author with ~30 years of professional programming experience.
Conference Speaking, Guest Posting, General help to fellow developers.
Aug 29, 2022 · 8 min read · There have been amazing articles on the subjects of migrating from a monolith to a microservice architecture e.g. this is probably one of the better examples. The benefits and drawbacks of the architectures should be pretty clear. I want to talk abou...
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Jul 31, 2022 · 5 min read · I have a confession: I'm addicted to Wordle. Especially now that it's out of style and people don't post about it. I love that it's short, I can solve one word and then it's gone. I don't feel too bad about the addiction and wasting my time with a ga...
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Jul 26, 2022 · 8 min read · Java 9 was all about modules. It was the big change and also the most problematic change. It sucked the air out of every other feature that shipped as part of that release. Unfortunately, one victim of this vacuum was jhsdb which is a complex tool to...
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Jul 21, 2022 · 6 min read · When tracking a bug we need to take a two pronged approach. Similar to tongs that wrap the buggy module from both sides and squeezes to find the problematic part. Up until now we discussed tools that are very low level. Some can be used to debug syst...
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Jul 12, 2022 · 5 min read · In this series I cover a lot of magical tools and git bisect is probably the best example of such magic. The hardest part in debugging is knowing the general area of the bug, bisect literally shines a light on the specific commit that caused it! Bef...
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