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

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 if you want to play along, you'll need to compile with the -Xcontext-receivers flag. The main idea b...

Conditional build on GitLab

May 9, 20222 min read

Regular readers of this blog know that I'm using Jekyll to generate the static site. I'm using GitLab: when I push on the master branch, it triggers the generation job. However, Jekyll is Ruby-based and requires a couple of Gem dependencies. I've als...

Conditional build on GitLab

Securely authenticate to Google Cloud from GitHub

May 1, 20224 min read

Recently, I designed a simple metrics-tracking system. A Python script queries different providers' APIs for metrics, e.g., Twitter, GitHub, etc. The idea is to run this script each day, store them in Google BigQuery and provide an excellent data vis...

Securely authenticate to Google Cloud from GitHub

Chopping the monolith

Apr 24, 20229 min read

If you attend conferences or read technical articles, you could think that microservices are the correct and only way to build a system at the moment. Despite some pushback from cooler heads, the default architecture is microservices. In this post, I...

Chopping the monolith

Beautify your GitHub repo

Apr 17, 20226 min read

Whether you like it or not, GitHub has become the primary provider to host one's code. You or your company is probably using GitHub. I want to highlight some files to beautify your GitHub repository in this post. README I hope that by now, everybody ...

Beautify your GitHub repo

Rust in Action

Apr 10, 20224 min read

Disclaimer: this post includes affiliate links; I may receive compensation if you purchase the book from the different links provided in this post. I'm pretty much a learning-by-doing kind of guy. However, I tend to get back to documentation after a ...

Rust in Action