Flexy Pool, reactive connection pooling

Introduction When I started working on enterprise projects we were using J2EE and the pooling data source was provided by…

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The anatomy of Connection Pooling

Introduction All projects I’ve been working on have used database connection pooling and that’s for very good reasons. Sometimes we…

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Maven and Java multi-version modules

Introduction Usually, a project has a minimum Java version requirement and that applies to all of its modules. But every…

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MongoDB 2.6 is out

Introduction MongoDB is evolving rapidly. The 2.2 version introduced the aggregation framework as an alternative to the Map-Reduce query model.…

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Effective learning techniques for software craftsmen

Go in one ear and out the other Programming languages, operating systems, SQL, NoSQL, web frameworks, Spring, Java EE, HTML,…

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The Builder pattern and the Spring framework

Introduction I like to make use of the builder pattern whenever an object has both mandatory and optional properties. But…

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Afraid of reopened issues?

Introduction Reopened issues and developer feelings don’t mix well, a recurrent phenomenon I’ve seen on all projects I’ve worked on.…

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Choosing a leader like an agilist

The leader as a captain I recently read Petri Kainulainen’s article on sharing leadership among team members and I am…

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Caching best practices

Introduction There is an irresistible attraction to writing custom caching solutions, since it seems to be the easiest path to…

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