Published inSoftwareMill Tech Blog·May 20, 2022Micronaut vs Quarkus: part 2Some time ago, I wrote a post comparing some aspects of the Micronaut and Quarkus frameworks. However, it didn’t touch on two critical topics: web endpoints and cloud support. Below you can find a not-so-short description of those two areas. At the moment of writing this post, the available versions…Java19 min readJava19 min read
Published inSoftwareMill Tech Blog·May 14, 2022Overview of next-generation Java frameworksWhat constitutes a modern framework? What criteria should it fulfill to be considered as the next-gen one? I think the following aspects are essential when looking for the answer: support for writing microservices, integration with cloud providers, startup time and memory consumption, possibility to write reactive applications, support for the…Java5 min readJava5 min read
Published inSoftwareMill Tech Blog·Jan 22, 2021Micronaut vs Quarkus — what’s the difference?When you choose a framework or a toolkit for a new Java project and look around, you spot plenty of options out there. I will not be too wrong in saying that the most popular one right now is Spring Boot from Pivotal. In this article, the first one in…Micronaut16 min readMicronaut16 min read
Published inSoftwareMill Tech Blog·Dec 16, 2020Kafka consumer in JavaKafka is a well-known event streaming platform. We are using it in plenty of projects. Nothing unusual — the tooling is just great. Various frameworks and libraries offer integration with Kafka. …Java11 min readJava11 min read
Published inSoftwareMill Tech Blog·Dec 2, 2019Cassandra custom types convertersSo, you’re working on a project with domain objects flying around, storing them somewhere, fetching them using identifiers, and handling their data. Maybe you have read my previous article about the forgotten value of Value Objects. There, I have presented why it is so beneficial to use them in code. …Cassandra3 min readCassandra3 min read
Published inSoftwareMill Tech Blog·Aug 20, 2019Hey, developer! There is no easy way out!Once upon a time, there was a REST service. It wasn’t too big nor too small; one could say — of a reasonable size. However, it was a crucial one, and almost the whole herd of other services was dependent on it. …API7 min readAPI7 min read
Published inSoftwareMill Tech Blog·Jun 14, 2019The forgotten value of Value ObjectsLet’s make a glimpse of why applying the Value Object approach to our code can be really beneficial. I’m sure pretty much of us have heard about Domain Driven Design (DDD), ubiquitous language, and all this fancy stuff. And yet, I see a lot of code that does not apply…Programming6 min readProgramming6 min read
Published inSoftwareMill Tech Blog·Mar 27, 2019Code for comprehensionAlmost every Java project I’m developing depends on the Vavr library. While I enjoy working with monadic types, sometimes I spot challenging code and wonder how to write it, so it is readable. One such situation is combining values held by two or more monadic types into a single object…Functional Programming5 min readFunctional Programming5 min read
Published inSoftwareMill Tech Blog·Jan 29, 2019Exceptions? No, just Try them off!Every programmer has to deal with exceptions. There are various ways of handling them. Here is how you can control them in Java with some help of an external library. WHAT AND WHY What is the purpose of exceptions in Java? Code that throws exception(s) signals that something went wrong. …Functional Programming7 min readFunctional Programming7 min read
Published inSoftwareMill Tech Blog·Jan 25, 2019A valid Java Bean?JSR-380, also known as Bean Validation 2.0, is a standard. Should we use it everywhere then? Let’s consider pros and cons. I’m working on a project with a couple of smart guys. We’ve been discussing how to validate our data. I opted for manual, custom validation, based on Vavr’s…Java5 min readJava5 min read
