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Kotlin and FaaS, an impossible union?

Oct 17, 20215 min read

Some time ago, I read a post describing how to run a serverless Kotlin function on OpenFaaS. While the content is technically correct, I believe the concept itself is very wrong. Such posts can lead people to make ill-advised decisions: "because we c...

Kotlin and FaaS, an impossible union?

Faster Maven builds in Docker

Oct 10, 20218 min read

Last week, I described different techniques to fasten your Maven builds. Today, I'd like to widen the scope and do the same for Maven builds inside Docker. Between each run, we change the source code by adding a single blank line; between each sectio...

Faster Maven builds in Docker

Faster Maven builds

Oct 3, 20217 min read

Builds require a few properties, chief among them reproducibility. I would consider speed to be low on the order of priorities. However, it's also one of the most limiting factors to your release cycle: if your build takes T, you cannot release faste...

Faster Maven builds

Multiple ways to configure Spring

Sep 26, 20217 min read

Two weeks ago, I wrote how you could write a Spring application with no annotations. Many alternatives are available to configure your Spring app. I'd like to list them in this post, leaving Spring Boot out of the picture on purpose. Core concepts A ...

Multiple ways to configure Spring

Reassessing TestNG vs. Junit

Sep 19, 20216 min read

In my latest blog post, I advised reassessing one's opinion now and then as the IT world changes fast. What was true a couple of years ago could be dead wrong nowadays, and you probably don't want to base your decisions on outdated data. This week, I...

Reassessing TestNG vs. Junit

Annotation-free Spring

Sep 12, 20217 min read

Some, if not most, of our judgments regarding technology stacks come either from third-party opinions or previous experiences. Yet, we seem to be adamant about them. For a long time (and sometimes even now), I've seen posts that detailed how Spring i...

Annotation-free Spring