Recent Articles

Reactive Multi-Threading with RxJava - Pitfalls and Solutions

I recently had a rough time refactoring a multi-threaded, reactive message processor. It just didn’t seem to be working the way I expected.

Read more

Book Review: Atomic Habits

TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you want to raise your awareness of your habits you are looking for a framework to help in starting or stopping habits you enjoy real-world stories about habits Overview {% include book-link.

Read more

Continuous Database Configuration with Flyway and Kubernetes

Self-contained systems (SCS) are systems that have no tight coupling to other systems. They can be developed, deployed and operated on their own.

Read more

On Blogging, Writing, and Habits: This Was 2019

There it is. 2019 is gone. 2020 is here. I feel old. As I did last year, I take this time to reflect on my year 2019 and to set some plans for 2020.

Read more

One-Stop Guide to Profiles with Spring Boot

Spring provides a mighty tool for grouping configuration properties into so-called profiles, allowing us to activate a bunch of configurations with a single profile parameter.

Read more

Insights from YOW! 2019

I visited the YOW! conference in Sydney in December 2019. What better way to persist what I learned than in a blog post?

Read more