Nicolas Fränkel
A Java Geek

A Java Geek

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Nicolas Fränkel

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🥑 Developer Advocate @Hazelcast ✍️ Blogger at http://blog.frankel.ch 🎓 Learner 📖 Author of https://leanpub.com/integrationtest

Taking VSCodium for a spin

Jun 20, 20223 min read

As part of my new job on Apache APISIX, I write less Java and Kotlin code. And when I do, the code is really simple. My coding hours (unfortunately...

Taking VSCodium for a spin

What I miss in Java, the perspective of a Kotlin developer

Jun 13, 20227 min read

Java has been my bread and butter for almost two decades. Several years ago, I started to learn Kotlin; I never regretted it. Though Kotlin compiles...

What I miss in Java, the perspective of a Kotlin developer

Running Jekyll on a Mac

Jun 6, 20223 min read

At the beginning of the year, I had two new Macs in a row in one month. I changed my company and had to return my previous laptop. Thus, I ordered a...

Running Jekyll on a Mac

My summary of jPrime 2022

May 30, 202211 min read

Writing summaries of conference talks is the best way to focus on the talk and listen actively. Before conference speaking became part of my job, I...

My summary of jPrime 2022

Chopping the monolith - the demo

May 23, 20225 min read

In my previous blog post Chopping the monolith, I explained my stance on microservices and why it shouldn't be your golden standard. However, I...

Chopping the monolith - the demo

Toying with Kotlin's context receivers

May 16, 20225 min read

Kotlin added the idea of Context Receivers in version 1.6.20. In this post, I'd like to toy with them to understand how useful they can be. Note that...