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Nicolas Fränkel

Nicolas Fränkel

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

Monkey-patching in Java

Sep 21, 20238 min read

The JVM is an excellent platform for monkey-patching. Monkey patching is a technique used to dynamically update the behavior of a piece of code at...

Monkey-patching in Java

Offering my blog to new authors

Sep 7, 20232 min read

Regular readers of this blog know that I started it a long time ago, namely in April 2008. I soon found my cruising speed: a post a week. It requires...

Offering my blog to new authors

Send your logs to Loki

Aug 31, 20234 min read

One of my current talks focuses on Observability in general and Distributed Tracing in particular, with an OpenTelemetry implementation. In the demo,...

Send your logs to Loki

Introduction to the Tower library

Aug 24, 20234 min read

One of the components of my OpenTelemetry demo is a Rust application built with the Axum web framework. In its description, axum mentions: axum...

Introduction to the Tower library

My final take on Gradle (vs. Maven)

Aug 10, 20239 min read

I tweet technical content that I consider interesting, but the funny tweets are the ones that get the most engagement. I attended the JavaLand...

My final take on Gradle (vs. Maven)

Designing APIs with Swagger and OpenAPI

Jul 20, 20232 min read

Disclaimer: this post includes affiliate links; I may receive compensation if you purchase the book from the different links provided in this...

Designing APIs with Swagger and OpenAPI