Published in SoftwareMill Tech Blog·Dec 8, 2022What’s new in the Apache Struts 6.0.0The short answer is: a lot :) If you take a look at the Version Notes, you can notice over 200 changes — tons of bug fixes and improvements with a pinch of new features. …Apache Struts6 min readApache Struts6 min read
Published in SoftwareMill Tech Blog·Nov 23, 2022How to use Sonar in your projectProbably a few of you have heard about Sonar — a tool that can help you keep your code clean and safe. If you have never heard about it, I encourage you to read the below blog post to grasp how to use it. For the rest who know it…Sonar7 min readSonar7 min read
Published in SoftwareMill Tech Blog·Nov 4, 2022When your bot gets retiredBots are used all over the internet and are also used internally. There are a lot of specialized bots that are focused on a single responsibility to manage. …Automation5 min readAutomation5 min read
Published in SoftwareMill Tech Blog·May 27, 2022How to use Dependabot on GithubKeeping your dependencies up to date can be a challenging task. There are a few good tools on the market that can help you with a given type of environment like OWASP Dependency-Check Project, which supports Ant, Maven, sbt, Gradle-based projects, or Scala Steward if you’re using only plain Scala…Dependabot4 min readDependabot4 min read
Published in SoftwareMill Tech Blog·Mar 24, 2022Visualise your dataThis post is a short story about how to use a JavaScript library to see what a backend developer cannot see from raw data. Background I’m currently working on a project where we are trying to solve the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP in short) on scale, which is a more complicated…JavaScript7 min readJavaScript7 min read
Published in SoftwareMill Tech Blog·Feb 2, 2022Lombok — the wrong wayI’ve been using the Scala language for a couple of years, yet I decided to join a new project written purely in Java as I was curious what new and interesting had happened in the Java ecosystem during these years. …Java6 min readJava6 min read
Published in SoftwareMill Tech Blog·Dec 1, 2021Content Management System: VersioningIn my previous post, I made an introduction into why we decided to implement our custom CMS solution. It didn’t explain all the things and variances, but should give you a glimpse of why it was the best choice for us. In this post, I would like to focus on…Software Development7 min readSoftware Development7 min read
Published in SoftwareMill Tech Blog·Oct 22, 2021Developing your own Content Management System — PrefaceYou can wonder why one would do such a thing, why not use something that’s already available on the market. Why do you want to reinvent the wheel? And you are absolutely right, there are tons of Content Management System (aka CMS) products on the market you can use out-of-the-box…Scala7 min readScala7 min read
Published in SoftwareMill Tech Blog·Apr 28, 2021Redelivery with RabbitMQWhen you are developing a service that needs to communicate with other services or has to support integration with customer services, you should consider implementing a proper retry mechanism. Network connections can fail, other services can be temporarily unavailable to do maintenance or rescheduling of Pods to another node. Even…Rabbitmq7 min readRabbitmq7 min read
Published in SoftwareMill Tech Blog·Jun 29, 2020Scaling Event BusIn my previous post I showed how you can implement an event bus using Akka and how to handle incoming and outgoing messages using Websockets. Now it’s time to feed the event bus with some internal events and also support scaling it up on multiple instances. The Publisher Instead of depending directly…Akka5 min readAkka5 min read
