Month: May 2016

This Week in Dev (TWiD) is a curated list with the most funny and interesting articles I stumble upon during my work and research time.

This issue is more focused on DevOps, a hot trend at the moment.

• Stackoverflow is one of the biggest sites on the internet. Such sites have more than one server. Deploying your new version can be tricky and hard to manage. Nick Craver, Software Developer and Systems Administrator at Stackoverflow, explains how Stackoverflow deploys to production.

• Apache Mesos, a distributed systems kernel, abstracts your cluster of nodes into a single pool of resources. DC/OS is an enterprise grade datacenter scale operating system. Codecentric uploaded a short and entertaining video explaining What is DC/OS and Mesos?

• Continuous Integration (CI) is a hot topic in the DevOps world. Joseph Heck blogged the Six rules for setting up continuous integration systems.

Software Developer

• We all have heard or been hit by Murphy’s Law. But do you know the 15 Fundamental Laws of Software Development is funny but rather interesting blog post on how to sound smart at your next team meeting. No, really it is an interesting read.

• Have you ever thought or are you curious to know how’s the life of a software developer after 40? Then this is an interesting read.

• Bugs are the worst enemy for every software developer. We try as hard as we can to avoid them but sometimes they just pop out of nowhere. Still, are software developers the only ones dealing with bugs? No, not really.

Technology

• Hacking Team, a rather famous (not for the best reasons) surveillance company got hacked some time ago. Compromising documents were released. The hacker explained how he got access into Hacker Team’s internal network.

 

And… that’s all folks. See you next week.

Welcome to the seventh issue of This Week in Dev.

Java

• Converting exceptions into HTTP status codes, another short and great blog post by Adam Bien. Don’t forget to also have a look at Mapping JPA OptimisticLockException into HTTP status code.

• Mario Fusco is posting a series of articles about the popular Gang Of Four design patters in a functional way. So far, there are two articles released, here’s part one and part two.

• Sometimes you need to log the data access in our application. The problem comes when you are using a data access framework, like Hibernate, that uses PreparedStatement and the bound values are not logged. To bypass this issue, Vlad Mihalcea has an interesting article on the best way of logging JDBC statements.

• Lightbend, former TypeSafe, has launched Lagom, a microservices framework. Yannick De Turck and Andreas Evers share their First Impressions and Initial Comparison to Spring Cloud.

• Takipi blogged about the current status of Java EE. For those around or following the Java EE community, this is a good read. Has Oracle given up on Enterprise software?

• Microservices is a buzz term nowadays. Kelly Goetsch, director of product management at Oracle shares, probably, Oracle’s next steps towards microservices.

General development

• When to rewrite from scratch? Why, when and lessons learnt. Autopsy of a failed software. We all had that feeling of rewriting our product from scratch, before making a decision you should read this.

 

This is it folks, see you next week.