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Use a Terraform wrapper script to easily manage Terraform installations

Terraform is a great tool for managing your cloud infrastructure resources using code. It supports Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and more. If you are looking to use Terraform…

Dynamic SFTP Connection Factory for Spring Integration

I recently had the opportunity to dive into a Spring Integration project that presented an interesting challenge: the creation of a outbound SFTP Connection Factory at runtime based on Spring Batch jobs.

Object Partners 2017 MN Holiday Open House — Recap

Experiencing Hour of Code

A few years ago I signed up to volunteer for a local Hour of Code event on the Code.org website. It took a few years, but I was asked to take part in an event this year at a local elementary school. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but took the opportunity as a learning event for me as…

Serializing Groovy Traits with Jackson

Working on a Groovy and Spring Boot project, we encountered a serialization issue on an object that implemented a Groovy trait. The object would be serialized correctly until the JsonFormat annotation was used on one of the fields in the trait that the object…

Passing Command Line Arguments to a Spring Boot Application via a bootRun Task in Gradle

There currently seems to be no easy way to pass arguments to a Spring Boot application launched using the bootRun task in Gradle. There are plenty of stack overflow questions…

Android Architecture Components

Near the start of November, the Google team finally hit the 1.0 stable release of its architecture components. Originally announced at Google IO 2017, these components were designed to allow Android developers to create maintainable and easily testable code. The new…

High Availability With A Single Instance

Changes in technology happen relatively quickly these days and every once in a while it’s worth stopping for a moment to ponder current practices and consider alternatives given the options that are currently available.

Development After Scrum

&tldr; You should probably be doing Kanban instead of Scrum and you might not need to spend as much time estimating things.

The Current State

Scrum seems to be the defacto standard of software development here in 2017. While it might…