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Spring Boot

Protect Your Code from NullPointerExceptions with Spring’s Null-Safety Annotations

Saikat Sengupta
February 1, 2022

NullPointerExceptions (often shortened as “NPE”) are a nightmare for every Java programmer. We can find plenty of articles on the internet explaining how to write null-safe code.

Getting Started with AWS CDK

Pratik Das
January 23, 2022

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the managing and provisioning of infrastructure through code instead of through a manual process. AWS provides native support for IaC through the CloudFormation service.

Java

Complete Guide to the Immutables Java Library

Mateo Stjepanović
January 17, 2022

Immutability means that an object’s state is constant after the initialization. It cannot change afterward. When we pass an object into a method, we pass the reference to that object.

Java

Common Operations on Java Collections

Pratik Das
January 15, 2022

Collections are containers to group multiple items in a single unit. For example, a collection can represent a stack of books, products of a category, a queue of text messages, etc.

Spring Boot

Tracing with Spring Boot, OpenTelemetry, and Jaeger

Tom Hombergs
January 9, 2022

In a distributed system, many services can be involved in creating a response to a single request. Not only for debugging purposes it’s essential that the path of such a request can be traced through all involved services.

Meta

Reflectoring Review 2021 - Growing Slowly

Tom Hombergs
January 2, 2022

It’s the time of the year again when I reflect about the Reflectoring year (pun intended). In this article, I share a bit about my successes and failures as a creator of code, text, and (coming up) a SaaS product.