Privately scoped variable in `when` block

January 03, 2019
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Super short post, on a change introduced in Kotlin 1.3 (yes I know it has been out for a while now). We will take a quick look at capturing…

Validating external data with an Oracle

January 01, 2019
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I hang out in the Corda Slack channel quite a lot and try to answer questions when I can. A reasonable number of questions I have attempted…

Throughput - A Corda story

December 14, 2018
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I recently rolled off a project focusing on the performance of Corda for a particular use-case. The result of this project lead to us…

Increasing network throughput with multiple Notaries

November 18, 2018
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Do you need a very high throughput Corda network? Has the network’s throughput levelled out? Have you already squeezed out all the…

Cached Prepared Statements with Spring Data Cassandra

October 23, 2018
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Today I have a short post on using Prepared Statements in Spring Data Cassandra. Spring provides you with some utilities to make using…

Starting Flows with trackBy

October 05, 2018
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Still continuing my trend of looking at Corda Services, I have some more tips to help your CorDapp work smoothly. This time around, we will…

Asynchronous Flow invocations with Corda Services

September 22, 2018
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How can I make my Flows faster? There’s a good chance you have thought about this before if you have been working with Corda for a while…

Containerising a Spring Data Cassandra application

September 08, 2018
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I’m continuing my journey of learning Docker. I am still keeping it simple at this point. This time around, I am going to tackle converting…

Using Docker to shove an existing application into some containers

September 02, 2018
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I have finally got round to learning how to use Docker past the level of knowing what it is and does without ever using it. This is the…

Corda Services 101

August 19, 2018
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I’m in the mood to write a short and to the point post today. I’m actually curious how quickly I can get this published. So let’s go. This…