Startup Reality
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Startup Reality

Introduction In this post I’m going to be brutally honest about the good, the bad & the ugly realities involved when working as a software engineer, within a startup. It certainly isn’t how Hollywood might vision it, it likely isn’t as exciting as a lot of people might think. It’s safe to say that if…

Microservice Architecture
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Microservice Architecture

Microserivce, a fun buzzword, an alternative for SOA, however, terms aside, one thing that I personally love thinking about is the underlying architecture regarding microservices. From looking at more primitive solutions such as just having some cluster with a bunch of services, maybe if you’re lucky having some application gateway sitting in front of the…

Why I Like Spring II
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Why I Like Spring II

Okay, so in my previous article, I stated some of the things that I like about Spring, although, it doesn’t stop there, Spring is just beautiful for MSA and/or distributed applications. Not to mention how popular Spring is, Spring may just be the most popular Java framework at this moment in time, having used more…

Why I Like Spring
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Why I Like Spring

To start off, let’s agree that Spring is a lovely ecosystem, between the large community support, it’s incredibly popular & it’s just all round tried & tested. I could go on, one thing that’s made me fall in love with the Spring framework is the ease that’s included when scaling horizontally, and hell, here’s a…