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Taking VSCodium for a Spin

As part of my new job on Apache APISIX, I write less Java and Kotlin code. And when I do, the code is really simple. My coding hours (unfortunately not days) involve: A lot of containerization, including Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml, and soon Kubernetes manifests Some Python for scripting jobs – I abandoned Kotlin Scripting for this A bit of Lua because …

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Java on Azure Tooling Update – July 2022

Hi everyone, welcome back to the July update of Java on Azure Tooling. In this update, we will introduce the brand new getting started experience with the Azure toolkit for IntelliJ. In addition, we have added support for Managed Identity Authentication. Let’s see what these new features are. Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ Improvements New Guided Getting Started Experience In April’s …

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Debugging Gson, Moshi and Jackson JSON Frameworks in Production

Parsing bugs are the gift that keeps on giving in the age of APIs. We use a service, it works perfectly in debugging, QA, etc. Then some user input that made its way to the web request returns a result we just can’t parse. Unfortunately, there isn’t much we can do at this stage. We need to understand why the …

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