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2023
Tips for Software Engineers to optimize your Slack Workspace for Productivity
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Run Docker with Colima in Macbook M1
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Essential kubectl commands for managing Kubernetes deployments
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Things that define a high performing team
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2022
20 things I learned as a Lead engineer
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2021
2020
Solving JsonMappingException error in Fasterxml Jackson
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Acceptance tests using cucumber in Java applications
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Increase coverage in your Java code
In this post we are going to talk about code coverage in your Java code. It’s important to have a high coverage but we have to consider other things apart fr...
10 common mistakes using exceptions in Java
In this post, we are going to go through some common mistakes using exceptions in java. Exceptions in Java are not an easy topic and different teams can have...
2019
Technical debt
Do you know what it means to have debt? Is when you have to return to the bank money with interests. The more debt that you have, the worse, because you have...
Creating an Orika converter
If we think in a Java REST api that we want to build it would be a good practice that the requests objects of your api should not be used inside your appl...
Release on Friday
Release software to production is the action to deliver software to your customers. From the moment that somebody thinks of a good idea until we release it, ...
Developing before and after Docker
Before Docker When I started my carrer as a software developer in 2009 and I had to develop an application I needed to install all the services before starti...
Failed to load properties for name - understanding Java class loaders
Adding a cache One of the last tasks that I have been involved has been to reduce the technical debt of a tool that was using backbone and bootstrap in the f...
Experiment, measure and learn
Experiment instead of investigating Nowadays it’s more important than ever to use data in order to take decisions to evolve your product/service to be custom...
Benefits of using kafka and first steps
The traditional approach to store data Imagine that you have an application that writes in the database every time that a customer searches/buys a product. T...
Learn by doing - My first android app
This is a statement that is used nowadays in the software development industry but this is a concept that can be used in a lot of environments and discipline...
2018
Passing the Java SE 8 Programmer I 1Z0-808 exam
Oracle certificate associate Java 8 programmer OCA is the acronym of Oracle certification associate, and is the first certification that you can get as Java ...
Improving performance of JPA queries
Why use JPA? JPA stands for Java persistence api and describes the management of relational data in applications using the Java platform.
Update to the last version
Is it necessary to update the software? Sometimes non technical people don’t understand why its necessary to migrate an application in your mobile phone, or ...
My experience migrating from Windows to Ubuntu
In the last month I have been using Ubuntu as the operating system of my desktop computer and I wanted to write a review of what I like about it and the proc...
Blockchain la revolución industrial de internet
Hoy mismo he terminado de leer el libro Blockchain: la revolución industrial de internet y he pensado en escribir un artículo en el blog para explicar mi opi...
The importance of Code review
I think code review is one of the most important things in software development nowadays. Code quality makes software maintainable and makes the job easier f...
How to manage Maven dependencies
When you create a Java project using Maven as a dependency management you can include all the dependencies that you want in your repository. A possible struc...
Tips to write clean code
In this post I will go through the most useful rules that I follow to write clean code. You would wonder why it’s important to write clean code, well, for th...
2017
Tips to read and understand code
The following list contains my personal tips for reading code of other developers. We spend a lot of time reading code of other people and knowing how to do ...
Retrospectives - Learning from the past
Look back in the last month and see what you did, which projects you participated in, which meetings you attended, how are the dinamics inside your team, wha...
Modern Java EE Design Patterns book review
My kindle paperwhite says in the beginning of the book that the time to read this book is 2 hours and 55 minutes. Time spent reading was worth it.
Create your personal blog for free with Github
You can have your own personal website for free without having to pay any hosting services monthly or annualy. The blog that you are reading the content is h...
Slow builds and fast deploys
What would you think if your developers have to wait for a long time before trying the code changes that they have just coded? I remember 5 years ago a proje...
Compilaciones lentas y despliegues rápidos
¿Qué pensarías si tus desarrolladores tuvieran que esperar mucho tiempo antes de probar los cambios de código que acaban de codificar? Recuerdo hace 5 años u...