Another non LTS version which was released on 17th of march 2020. Let's go through some of the features. https://assets.sewickleyherald.com/2019/11/The-Good-The-Bad-The-Ugly-Slider-cropped.jpg The Good You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig. Records Well this was a long awaited feature. It's still a… Continue reading Java 14 – The good, the bad and the ugly
Domain Driven Design Compromises
Domain driven design is a great way to build applications. You can isolate the business from the infrastructure and speak with non-technical team members using the ubiquitous language. The domain should be clean from infrastructure, but as we will see in the next lines some compromises need to be made. Lombok. Do we use lombok… Continue reading Domain Driven Design Compromises
Data transfer object
Data transfer object(DTO) or transfer object as you find it under the CoreJ2EE patterns it's used to bundle data from multiple places into one object which we send to a consumer. Usually we find this at the business and data layers of our applications. Its purpose is to decouple these layers from the presentation. For… Continue reading Data transfer object
Software Polyglots
When we start to work in the IT industry we usually select a development language and stick to it. At least that's what I did. And my language of choice was Java. Never wanted to hear about any other languages. Focused my time and energy into learning as much as I could about it. Was… Continue reading Software Polyglots
Java 13
This will cover some of the features that were introduced in Java 13 and were released officially on 13th of September 2019. ZGC It was introduced in Java 11. In this release it was enhanced to return memory to the system when the space is unused. This is a critical improvement because applications with a… Continue reading Java 13
Triggers and deadlocks – MySQL
We are in 2019. Who uses triggers you may wonder? That's a valid question. But if you plan to do a database migration you may find them handy. Let's say that part of the migration you create new separate schema which you plan to use it for the new version. Or you could break one… Continue reading Triggers and deadlocks – MySQL
Java 12 Features (GC Saga continues)
It was released on March 19, 2019. It's a non LTS release. Here's an overview of the most relevant updates for developers. Switch Expressions It has passed a long time since the last update to switch statement, more specifically the switch on strings in JDK 7. Five versions later we have a new update. switch… Continue reading Java 12 Features (GC Saga continues)
Java 11 features
It was release on September 25, 2018. This version has LTS so it is recommended to upgrade to this one in production. Unfortunately this is the first version that we need to pay for(oracle version). The openjdk is still open-source so this will be the choice for most of the developers. Oracle version is free… Continue reading Java 11 features
Deadlocks 101 – MySQL
Ahh deadlocks. Few words have the same impact as this in the software world. Doesn't matter if you're a DBA or developer you will get impatient. Some deadlocks take days for fixing, they are hard to reproduce, some of them reproduce only on prod machines. It's not unusual to do blind fixes, you just don't… Continue reading Deadlocks 101 – MySQL
Java 10 features
It was released on March 20, 2018. It is a short-term release without LTS support. Let's get into details. Local-Variable Type Inference Ahh...good'ol javascript. Well this is more like a sugar syntax. Instead of declaring inside a method a local variable with private void method(){ List<String> strings = new ArrayList<>(); // do other stuff }… Continue reading Java 10 features
