This blog is a platform for me to share my knowledge in the area of software development.
In this post, you will learn how to create a Docker image for your GraalVM native image. By means of some hands-on experiments, you will learn that it is a bit more tricky than what you are used to when creating Docker images. Enjoy!
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In this blog, you will learn how to build a GraalVM image for your Spring Boot application. Following these practical steps, you will be able to apply them to your own Spring Boot application. Enjoy!
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In October 2022, I visited Devoxx Belgium after two cancelled editions due to COVID-19. I learned a lot and received quite some information which I do not want to withhold from you. In this blog, you can find my takeaways of Devoxx Belgium 2022!
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Are you also often uninspired when you need to think of useful test data for your unit tests? Is ‘John Doe’ your best test friend? Do not worry, Datafaker comes to the rescue! In this blog, you will learn how to generate your test data.
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In this blog, you will learn how to manage several Java Development Kits (JDKs) on your Linux system using SDKMAN. Besides JDKs, several other SDKs can be managed by means of SDKMAN. Enjoy!
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The 4th of November, the J-Fall conference was organized by the NLJUG. J-Fall is the largest one-day Java conference in the Netherlands. I attended the conference and with this post, I want to share some of my impressions. Enjoy!
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The 14th of September Java 17 was released. Time to take a closer look at the changes since the last LTS release, which is Java 11. A short introduction is given about the licensing model and after that, some of the changes between Java 11 and Java 17 are highlighted, mainly by means of examples. Enjoy!
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In this blog you will learn how to monitor a Spring Boot application. You will make use of Spring Actuator, Micrometer, Prometheus and Grafana. Seems a lot of work, but this is easier as you might think!
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Every now and then, the idea of contributing to Open Source Software crosses the mind of every developer. However, often, it just remains to think about it instead of actually doing something. In this blog, I want to tell the story of my first Pull Request.
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In this blog, we are going to take a closer look at the Java 8 Streams API. We will mainly do so by means of examples. We will cover many operations and after reading this blog, you will have a very good basic understanding of the Streams API. Enjoy reading!
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