In my previous blog post Chopping the Monolith, I explained my stance on microservices and why it shouldn’t be your golden standard. However, I admitted that some parts of the codebase were less stable than others and had to change more frequently. I proposed “chopping” these few parts to cope with this requirement while keeping the monolith intact. As Linus …

In this post, learn how relational and NoSQL databases, Google Cloud Spanner and DataStax Astra DB, optimize distributed joins for real-time applications. Distributed joins are commonly considered to be too expensive to use for real-time transaction processing. That is because, besides joining data, they also frequently require moving or shuffling data between nodes in a cluster, which can significantly affect …

Although the Java 19 release is coming in September (2022-09-20), we already know what will happen in that release! In this article, we’ll touch on upcoming features via examples to get a sense of how valuable these can be to a project. JEP-405: Record Patterns (Preview) Java 14 introduced (JEP-361, Reference 2), which made it possible to use a switch …