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Confessions of an Enterprise Software Developer
Spock with Spring Boot 2.3 and JUnit 5
Recently, in one of my pet projects, I decided to try writing tests using Spock framework. It was a great experience, I enjoyed it a lot. Except for the part of setting it up, which was somewhat annoying.
Java Volatile Keyword
The Java volatile keyword guarantees variable visibility across threads, meaning reads and writes are visible across threads.
Implementing and Testing Delayed Processing in Java
Demonstration of a method to delay execution of a task in a non-blocking manner
Test Containers
An interesting project which provides bindings to manage containers within your tests
Webmention & WebSub
Ticking a few items off the checklist, I've added some basic webmention and websub support to the site.
AWS Layers and how to install git in your lambda job
Looking at implementing AWS lambda functions to update blog content, for which git access would be a prerequisite
Goodbye Wordpress
I finally switched off my PHP virtual host, after committing to a new site built with the 11ty platform.
Kotlin Nullable Types vs. Java Optional
When Java 8 introduced the Optional type many years ago, I was happy like a bird. I already knew about the Optional type from various…