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How I turned a D&D combat engine into an LLM benchmark, why the models only looked stupid, and how a language model ended up beating my scripted AI.

I kept asking LLMs who would win D&D battles.

After a long break, e4developer is back.

It has been a while since I last time wrote a post here, hence I wanted to update you on what is happening with the website (why the lack of activity) and what’…

On the 24th of September 2019, I had an opportunity to speak at the very first DevOps Roundabout meetup in London.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is one of the most important services available in AWS.

I have been posting a little bit less recently.

I am very excited to share with you my mini video course on “Code Sharing in Microservices Architecture”.

The first language I used to write a small program was Pascal.

Working for consultancy, I already had a chance to build microservice based systems in large financial organisations as well as public sector ones.

You probably heard about Ops, DevOps, maybe even about GitOps!

With Oracle stopping free updates for Java 8 and effectively only maintaining free updates with the latest Java release (12 at the time of writing) a natural…

We have all had quite a lot of time to get familiar with Java 8 and all the amazing features that it provided us with.

I am quite excited to share with you “The Journey to DevOps” (announcement and the download link here), the first white paper that I have published with my…

To be a good software developer you need to know some things very well.

Writing CV is a bit of a game.

You might have heard of the 10,000-hour rule.

Happy New Year to all my readers!

I wanted to write 2 blog posts a week in 2018, which would result in at least 100 blog posts in a year… This is the number 100!

The topic of software architecture comes up often when discussing microservices.

Today I want to talk to you about technical debt.

Machine Learning and its applications are getting more popular every day.

I am a big fan of Reddit.

Java is a very mature programming language – in fact, it is over 21 years old, so if it was a person it could drink even in the USA!

Words like leadership and management are used often when discussing software projects.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most popular Cloud solution out there.

It seems that everyone wants to work remotely these days.

Among many OOP design patterns described, the one that influenced my development the most is the Strategy Pattern.

Single Responsibility Principle, as defined in the very famous set of SOLID principles, is often misunderstood.

Today I want to share with you a review of the most exciting book I have listened to so far -“Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions” by…

There are numerous articles out there talking about agile teams and how being agile will change your life/project.

Spring Boot is enjoying, a seemingly never-ending growth of popularity.

If you want to write a program that is able to play a strategy game, there are good chances that you will be looking at a Minimax algorithm.

In this blog post, I want to take you back to basics and talk about Java for loops.

I have blogged about my road to productivity recently.

You might have noticed that I like reading books.

When thinking about microservices, we mostly imagine autonomous teams working on independent services.

In my career as a software developer, I have interviewed over 100 people.

Being productive and motivated- who wouldn’t want that?

In the past three years, I was involved in developing microservices architectures.

“Scrum Mastery: From Good To Great Servant-Leadership” – a book that I picked up recently based on it being the number one selling book about Agile…

I love playing chess.

You might have seen recently some Pluralsight promotion on my page.

“All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection” – David Wheeler.

Spring Boot is the most popular Java framework for developing microservices.

Have you heard of Reddit?

In this article, we will look closer at a fascinating open source project.

I have recently been writing a lot about microframeworks and my enthusiasm for them.

You may know that playing chess is my passion.

Recently I have read and reviewed “Clean Architecture” by Robert C.