Last year, I wrote a post on Open Telemetry Tracing to understand more about the subject. I also created a demo around it, which featured the following components: The Apache APISIX API Gateway A Kotlin/Spring Boot service A Python/Flask service And a Rust/Axum service I’ve recently improved the demo to deepen my understanding and want to share my learning. Using …

In this podcast, once a month, we discuss the history of a Java User Group and the people behind it. In this episode, I’m leaving the European Union and stepping over the border of Switzerland, the country where the Red Cross was started, and many international institutions have their headquarters. Let’s find out if there is also a big Java …

Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of March 2024, published on jfx-central.com during this month. Components, Libraries, Tools Pedro Duque Vieira integrated this pull request in FXThemes: “True Dark Mode is now also available on Mac. All thanks to Carl Dea. Not new, but siedlerchr pointed us on EasyBind: “Leverages lambdas to reduce boilerplate when creating custom bindings, …

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a programming paradigm that seeks to increase modularity by separating cross-cutting concerns from core application logic. Cross-cutting concerns refer to functionality like logging, security, and transactions that span across multiple areas of an application. AOP allows these concerns to be encapsulated in reusable modules called aspects. This improves modularity and makes the codebase easier to maintain. …

As developers, we read code more than we write it. When adding new features or fixing bugs, we first need to understand existing code, so we can make the right changes in the right place. When reading code inside the IDE, IntelliJ IDEA helps us to read and understand code by providing helpful features like syntax highlighting and inlay hints. But there …

Last year was my first year blogging, speaking at conferences, meeting incredible people, and seeing places I’ve never been before. It was at times quite arduous but at the same time energizing, as you can read in my post Looking back on one year of speaking and blogging. I didn’t want it to be a one-off year, so I dutifully …

Once in a while, I write non-technical blog posts when I’ve something worth sharing. Today, I’d like to write about my North America “Tour” across several conferences and user groups. The first leg of my journey started in Oakland, California, with Developer Week. Developer Week is an established conference with different editions in several locations and online during the year. …

As a developer and architect, my constant pursuit is to achieve simplicity and elegance when constructing resilient and intricate enterprise applications. With my affinity for the Spring Framework, I have witnessed firsthand the simplicity and modernization it brings to the Spring Ecosystem. This framework enables the creation of complex enterprise applications in a more streamlined and refined manner, boasting a …

FEPCOS-J prototypically implements a Java language extension that allows the realization of a multithreaded TCP/IP server in Java without thread or network programming. Please help me to make FEPCOS-J a Free/Libre and Open-Source Software (FLOSS). Introduction FEPCOS-J [1] is a Java development tool that prototypes a Java language extension for declarative programming of networked systems. See my previous posts for …

Does anyone else ever feel overwhelmed by Spring Boot? With a rich set of options and eco-system libraries on the one hand, and a very opinionated framework on the other, I often spend considerable time deciphering the “Spring Way” of doing things. I’ve been working with Spring Boot for over three years, yet there are moments when I sense I’m …