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There’s a reason Java continues to maintain popularity for such a long period of time: its conservative, slow, and steady approach is key to its success

What can or should be considered the right size of a unit with regard to what is tested in isolation? Two unit-testing approaches explained!

When OSS advocacy goes too far and corporate greed takes over. FOSS is used as a tool to destroy competition and hurt the dev community.

Instead of arguing about cosmetics, e.g., annotations vs. “functional”, we need to spend time on intrinsics more: actors, asynchronous, etc.

The Cloud rose to fame on the banner of cutting costs but with its tremendous growth, spend is rocketing. Learn how you can cut down overspend!

Here I list several hard things I’ve been exposed to. I believe there are many others: I’ll be interested in the ones you’ve encountered!

In this article, I highlight that microservices, as presented at conferences, are doomed to fail in most organizations.

From experience, I have seen three big mistakes every junior software developer makes that could easily be solved.

After many discussions with Java developers, combined with my personal experiences with the Java community and platform, here are the key reasons why Java developers love Java after all these years!

Table of Contents Packaging by layersBlindly obey quality toolsSettersAbstractions everywhereData Transfer ObjectsConclusion An exciting part of software development is what was unanimously considered good practice at one point in time can be more ambiguous years later. Or even plain wrong. …