There were are 3 days full of Java and other technologies as well. Here is my review of the day. Opening keynote(s) The first part of the opening was about Devoxx. The creator Stephan Jansen and some of his colleagues went through the updates regarding the 'Devoxx_ ecosystem of conferences that is now booming. London, …

So many valid points from Bert Ertman in this presentation around Microservices. Are you considering following this path in your project, in your team or your company? Please grab a coffee, a note pad (if you like hand written notes) and watch this. It is really a pain, waste of energy and very discouraging to see many …

I was watching today a short video by the Docker guys on how to setup the new multi host network capabilities, just introduced with Docker 1.9 . In the beginning, the engineer doing the demo was echoing in his terminal screen some very cool, labels and text. Eventually was piping echo to a tool called figlet (I knew it …

Some Kubernetes cheering! As I have written in previous posts, when you start investigating and working with all these new and shiny container / orchestration technologies, there is a high chance that you will end up lost in translation. A lot of information, a lot technologies, a lot of dev-ops, a lot of promises a …

While developing and evolving a REST API, using Java EE, there are some cases where you would like to have a look on the incoming HTTP request, specifically the header params, in a more fine grained (per case) way, rather than a Servlet Filter or the more specific ContainerRequestFilters . One potential way, which I …

Έχουμε ήδη καλύψει το μεγαλύτερο κόστος που θα αντιμετωπίσεις με το που έρθεις δεν είναι άλλο από την κατοικία. Θα προχωρήσω ευρύτερα στο κόστος ζωής όπως πχ, τρόφιμα, αγορά και άλλες υπηρεσίες. Γενικά Το Λουξεμβούργο είναι ένα ακριβό μέρος, ίσως από τα πιο ακριβά στην κεντρική Ευρώπη. Μπορείς να δεις στοιχεία εδώ αλλά …

This is something I wanted to write for some months now, especially after my relocation to a new country and a new market. It is about team bonding and performance, in the context of software development teams. A lot of stuff have been written in books around management or team leading, things like the role of the …

An old friend from the greek internets George B (aka Άχθος Αρούρης or snolly), he had his summer vacation on the beautiful island of Crete . Not only that, he was geek enough to take a drone among his luggage, a drone. yeap a drone. So you have a geek, a drone and summer vacations in a beautiful Greek island and this …

This post is not targeting people who already consider themselves MacOSX powerusers or they already are users of brew and cask. I have to admit, I discovered the power and easiness of these tools, quite late in my MacOSX user life, so I have to thank my ex-colleague and friend Harris who forced me to integrate brew and …

Lately, I have been considering using Swagger (core and it's related maven plugin) for one project, in order to provide some REST API documentation. Despite the fact, that Swagger is indeed a very powerful library, doable to integrate on your JAXRS 2.0 code base and the maven plugin works at the end of the day I think …