February, 2024

• 20 February

  Hardening Apache APISIX with the OWASP’s Coraza and Core Ruleset

  The Open Worldwide Application Security Project is an online community that produces freely available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in the fields of IoT, system software and web application security. The OWASP provides free and open resources. It is led by a non-profit called The OWASP Foundation. The OWASP Top 10 – 2021 is the published result of recent …

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• 19 February

  Build Flexible Jakarta EE Applications With Apache CouchDB NoSQL Database

  Are you a Jakarta EE developer interested in leveraging the power of NoSQL databases for your applications? This webinar – watch the recording here – is designed specifically to introduce you to the world of NoSQL through CouchDB, a high-performance, scalable database ideal for cloud-native applications. What is CouchDB? CouchDB is a NoSQL database used in distributed and cloud environments. It uses …

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• 16 February

  Video: Spring Boot Testcontainers Support for Local Development

  Spring Boot has supported TestsContainers for running services during tests for quite a while. With Spring Boot 3.1, Testcontainers support for local development was added. This video will show you how this works and how to use it. The post Video: Spring Boot Testcontainers Support for Local Development appeared first on foojay.

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• 15 February

  State of Open (Source?!) and Free AI – a FOSDEM recap

  Disclaimer: This article is on the things I learned/observed spending the day in AI and Machine Learning Developer Room at FOSDEM 24. Opinions and statements are mine and have nothing to do with my employer. This article might raise more questions than answers, but in my opinion, we all need more awareness on this topic and get familiar with the …

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• 14 February

  Top Most Detected Issues in Java Projects

  Using the telemetry from SonarLint after analyzing thousands of projects, these are the top most raised issues in Java projects. We know that having clean code in our projects is important, and every developer would agree on that. But, according to what SonarLint telemetry shows, there are still lots of issues that appear in the huge list of analyzed projects. …

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• 13 February

  Minimize Costs by Utilizing Cloud Storage with Spring-Data-Eclipse-Store

  Sooner or later any Spring application needs to store data. And of course, the first and easiest move is to utilize Spring Data JPA. You can set up your data storage without knowing which relational database you will use in production and simply start coding without worrying about that. It is the easiest and most convenient way to store data …

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• 13 February

  DTrace Revisited: Advanced Debugging Techniques

  DTrace Overview Understanding DTrace’s Capabilities System Monitoring and Analysis Process and Performance Analysis Customizability and Flexibility Real-World Applications Performance and Compatibility of DTrace Cross-Platform Compatibility Compatibility Challenges on MacOS Customizability and Flexibility of DTrace Adaptability to Various Scenarios Examples of Customizable Probes Real-World Applications of DTrace Final Words When we think of debugging, we think of breakpoints in IDEs, stepping …

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• 12 February

  Is JDWP’s onjcmd feature worth using?

  A few months ago, I told you about the onjcmd feature in my blog post Level-up your Java Debugging Skills with on-demand Debugging (which is coming to JavaLand 2024). The short version is that adding onjcmd=y to the list of JDWP options allows you to delay accepting the incoming connection request in the JDWP agent until jcmd <JVM pid> VM.start_java_debugging …

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• 11 February

  Using the Java Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) with LocalStack

  

  Yes! LocalStack, as you know I’m a huge fan; being able to run AWS Cloud Services locally is a great way to help test systems that heavily rely on them. Not a fan yet? No worries there’s still time, have a look at their website: https://localstack.cloud/. Article by Joery Vreijsen / Cloud devopsengineer by Kabisa Only interested in the code? A complete …

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• 9 February

  Do Repeat Yourself

  

  One of the first things we teach aspiring software engineers is the principle Don’t Repeat Yourself. The notion that as software engineers we should never write the same code twice. Duplication makes our code harder to change. So to prevent this, we learn to take all cases of the oh so dreaded duplication away. (Jordy van Vorselen/ developer by Kabisa) …

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