Backendhance

Hi, “After importing, we unpack the file and read the meta-information.”

Hi, A week ago, during my talk on “Pragmatic Programming with Kotlin” , I discussed the Broken Window Theory.

Hi, You probably know this feeling.

Hi, Today, I gave a presentation titled “Pragmatic Programming with Kotlin” at KKON.

Hi, Currently, I am practicing calligraphy.

Hi, Java 21 has finally reached General Availability (GA) status since Tuesday 🎉 For months, I’ve taken every opportunity to talk about how virtual threads are the highlight of this release for me.

If you’re already working with the Spring Framework, you’ve undoubtedly recognized its power and versatility.

Hi, What do snowflakes have to do with software development?

Hi, Yesterday, I published an article about the Assert class from Spring.

Hi, Change hurts.

Hi, My microwave was broken.

Hi, Do you know the feeling?

Hi, “The VPN should not be operated by you [Sysadmins].”

Hi, What distinguishes an application from a (mathematical) function?

Hi, Last week, emotions were running high.

Hi, Our intuition often plays tricks on us.

Hi, In Chinese, there is a famous saying: “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.

Hi, A week ago, Oliver Drotbohm published an expanded idea of the Onion Architecture: The Sliced Onion Architecture .

Hi, When was the last time you lost track of time?

Hi, You are new to a project.

Hi, I once developed a backend with just two engineers.

Hi, “I think Loom is going to kill reactive programming.”

Hi, Class comments, architecture documentation, method comments, API documentation, inline comments, feature documentation, wireframes, entity-relationship diagrams, use-case diagrams, process documentation, end-user documentation… There are so many things

Hi, An error in accounting can be costly.

Hi, “Why isn’t anyone talking about Project Loom?

Hi, Many companies utilize modern technologies.

Hi, What distinguishes a software developer from a carpenter?

Hi, Have you ever written your own password encoder?

Hi, Laziness prevails.

Hi, El Niño is back.

Over the past years I attended hundreds of interviews.

The javax.validation package is widely used in our industry.

In my last post I discussed the downsides of using numerical types for the primary key of an entity.

In many (JPA) applications numerical ids are chosen for the surrogate key of the entities.