Deep Work - A summary
February 19, 2023Several months ago, I read the book Deep Work, by Cal Newport and wanted to write a summary of the main takeaways I found within it…
Ktor WebSockets
August 19, 2022Ktor provides a WebSocket plugin to allow your applications to push real-time data between backend servers and clients over HTTP. The code…
Ktor - A Kotlin web framework
July 24, 2022Ktor is an asynchronous web framework written in and designed for Kotlin, leveraging coroutines and allowing you to write asynchronous code…
Reading and writing with a ConcurrentHashMap
July 09, 2022provides a implementation with thread-safe read and write operations. The and interfaces provide methods that takes advantage of to…
I rarely need Stack Overflow anymore
June 12, 2022I noticed recently that my dependence on Stack Overflow and similar platforms has wained as I have progressed in my career. The challenges I…
Getting started with RSocket Kotlin
June 04, 2022RSocket is a transport protocol designed for reactive applications. More information on RSocket can be found on their website, leaving me to…
Should you write comments, revisited
April 11, 20225 years ago, I wrote a blog post about leaving comments in your code. I leant heavily towards the side of not writing comments, and I see…
Using GraphQL Java with Spring
January 09, 2022GraphQL Java is one of the most popular GraphQL server-side implementations for Java that I’ve found (with over 5k stars at the time of…
Building a modular REST API with Javalin
November 20, 2021Javalin is a simple and lightweight web framework for Java and Kotlin (and technically any JVM language). I recently had to dig into Javalin…
Documenting a Spring REST API following the OpenAPI specification
September 26, 2021The OpenAPI specification defines how to write HTTP APIs that can be consumed by any programming language and provide insight into the APIs…