I guess I am old enough to remember the days when I had to configure Quartz on some old JavaEE application, troubleshoot a failed task maybe (Quartz is a very good library by the way)? Maybe some times it was a @Schedule EJB 3 job? Years go by, and we start getting used of Spring's @Scheduled beans, Micronaut has a …

It is more than certain that the world has already enough APIs and web pages where you can check daily the progress of your country in terms of COVID-19 cases, deaths and other statistics. So this post is not about my API (even though is up there, and I am planning to keep it online, and you are more than welcome to …

If you are using Google Cloud Run, then you know that once you deploy your service, Cloud Run automatically provisions and exposes a unique, HTTPS endpoint for your container. This usually comes in the form of https://YOUR-SERVICE-NAME-.a.run.app.The endpoint will remain intact, while you deploy new versions and will …

I guess it is one of these moments that you need to clean up your room (or maybe the whole house), it's not super messy, but it is messy enough to make you keep thinking about it. So one day (or night) you make the call, that's it, I need to clean up. This is how I felt about my personal gitlab account. I won't deny …

This was one of the features that I was waiting for months. Google Cloud Run is really easy to use, and I consider it production worthy, especially for small projects! Up until now, the scheduled container if it was not accepting any request, it was being suspended (similar to what happens to λ on aws, for those that …

It's been years that I have moved over to Gitlab for my personal projects. I still use Github at work and lately I am being intrigued by Github Actions (which kind of came late to the party, but then again it's a really nice feature, much needed). So while on Gitlab, I was wondering what is there for me (free account) …

I have been using Micronaut for the past year. It is always refreshing to learn something new, deep-diving into Micronaut was a nice change. it's a solid framework, I think it has a future and will gain momentum, my guess is that through time will attract a lot of Spring oriented developers. Being an early adopter …

it's been some months now that I have been using the Logictech MX Keys keyboard. I wanted to give it some time, but the fact that some of my friends bought it as well, and they are also satisfied, validates the fact that it deserves a good review. For my day-to-day work, I have been using a Topre - Realforce mechanical …

It is almost a month now that I wanted to write this short review, for Container Security by Liz Rice, one of the most concise tech books I have read recently. Target audience Advice for DevOps friendly software engineers (like me), if you are into docker and containers I would add this book to my must-read list on the …

I keep spending some of my free time playing around with Slack and specifically Slack bots. More to come on future posts but for now I can tell that I am amazed by the quality of the Slack Java SDK called Bolt. In this post I want to share a very simple Gitlab-CI pipeline that I use for building and deploying my toy …