Cloud Build – CI/CD for a Java Project

In a previous blog post I went over the basics of what it takes to create a configuration for Cloud…

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Google Cloud Build – Hello World

I have been exploring Google Cloud Build recently and this post is a simple introduction to this product. You can…

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Kotlin “Result” type for functional exception handling

In a previous post I had gone over how a “Try” type can be created in Kotlin from scratch to…

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Spring Endpoint to handle Json Patch and Json Merge Patch

In a previous blog post I went over the basics of Json Patch and Json Merge Patch and how a…

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Json Patch and Json Merge Patch in Java

 Json Patch and Json Merge Patch both do one job well – a way to represent a change to a…

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Project reactor and Caching with Caffeine

So you have a function which takes a key and returns a project reactor Mono type.  1 2 3 4…

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Coroutine based Spring boot webflux application

I have worked with Spring Framework for ages and it still manages to surprise me with how cutting edge it…

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Deriving a Kotlin “Try” type

Functional programming languages like Scala often have a type called “Try” to hold the result of a computation if successful or…

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Jackson Kotlin extension and reified types

Jackson Kotlin module library is a pleasure to use. It greatly simplifies gnarly code, specifically one’s involvingTypeReference.  Consider a sample…

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