Hello, reader! We’re going to go on a journey through the treacherous world of Java Class shadowing, discuss circumventing using shading, and finish with a walk through using Gradle. If you’re already familiar with the perils of Java Class shadowing feel free to skip ahead to the section on shading. Java class shadowing Class loaders and the classpath …

This post contains some of the lessons I’ve learned in the past decade of growing my career. I hope they resonate with engineers of all levels, and help early to mid-level software engineers advance their careers. Some of the lessons may seem to be stating the obvious (eg “be organized”…

Protocol buffers are a mechanism for sending data through the series of tubes known as the Internet. One common use of them is to define gRPC specifications — essentially a form of remote procedure calls. With gRPC service definitions, you create a “service” that has RPC methods. …

Spring is a popular Java framework that is often used to build web applications. One of the features it provides is what it calls “Inversion of Control” — essentially dependency injection, similar to that provided by Guice. …