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Matthew Cachia in Java User Group (Malta)

Mar 16, 2017

Java Persistence’s TABLE_PER_CLASS Is Evil

TL;DR – TABLE_PER_CLASS inheritance strategy uses some of the most inefficient ways to query. Your database performance will be dragged down as the data grows — consider switching to JOINED.

Slow performance explained

Matthew Cachia in Java User Group (Malta)

Nov 2, 2016

Safer, Faster End-to-End Testing Using … Docker?

Data garbage left by tests is arguably one of the biggest pains of End-to-End testing. One test might configure the system to exhibit a specific behaviour which might be fatal for another test case. Cleaning the data up, besides being a huge…

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Matthew Cachia in Java User Group (Malta)

Apr 21, 2016

Moving Your MySQL Database — The Clever Way

This article explains how one could migrate a MySQL database of any size from one remote server to another in the most efficient and simplest way.

So efficient, even I still cannot believe how an 850 gigabyte database has shrunk to an ultra-compressed 70…

Joseph Masini in Java User Group (Malta)

Feb 16, 2016

Yet another Spring Boot Application (Part 1)

Spring Boot applications seem to be gaining traction with the increase popularity of microservices. In this post, we will be covering a basic skeleton project for a Spring Boot application that simply runs with a number of default endpoints.