Service Mesh: Istio and AWS App Mesh

One of the big announcements at AWS re:Invent this week was the AWS App Mesh. Before talking about it though, let’s…

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Top 5 announcements from AWS re:Invent 2018

AWS re:Invent has just completed. It was a huge event with 50,000+ attendees across 7 of the biggest hotels in…

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Test Doubles: mocks, dummies and stubs

Most classes have collaborators. When unit testing, you usually want to avoid using real implementations of those collaborators to avoid test…

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An introduction to REST

REST, or Representational State Transfer is an architectural style, or more simply, a set of constraints. We will look at the constraints…

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AssertJ > Fest > Hamcrest

I have previously blogged about Hamcrest, and using its assertThat methods in preference to JUnit’s Assert. However, I quickly after discovered FEST Assertions, and…

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Microservices

A microservice is a small, focussed piece of software that can be developed, deployed and upgraded independently. Commonly, it exposes it…

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Keyboard shortcuts in IntelliJ

I attended a talk by Hadi Hariri at JavaOne last week. He introduced a whole bunch of IntelliJ keyboard shortcuts…

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Live Templates in IntelliJ

As described here, IntelliJ’s live templates let you easily insert predefined code fragments into your source code. I have posted…

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How to add an IntelliJ project to GitHub

Although the GitHub docs contains good info on how to add an existing GitHub project to your local machine, how…

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