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Guice at a Glance

A visual overview of Google’s Guice model.

written February 8, 2019 in cheat-sheet, dependency, framework, google, guice, injection Read on →

How to Prepare for the Silicon Valley Interview - Part 3

This is the third and final post of the Interviewing in Silicon Valley series. In this last piece I talk about how to make the most of your on-site, how to handle rejection and how to compare competing offers.

written January 23, 2019 in hiring, interview, interview-series, interviewing, job, silicon, tips, valley Read on →

How to Prepare for the Silicon Valley Interview - Part 2

Welcome to the second part of the Interviewing Series! It’s time to cover the thing that terrifies most candidates¹: the technical questions. We’ll see what different types of questions there are, and how we can prepare for them. We have a lot of ground to cover so let’s jump right into it.

written January 10, 2019 in hiring, interview, interview-series, interviewing, job, silicon, tips, valley Read on →

How to Prepare for the Silicon Valley Interview - Part 1

For the past few months, I’ve been interviewing with different companies on the Valley, from some of the well-known giants to promising startups. Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be publishing a series of articles about the things I learned in the journey. This is Part 1.

written January 6, 2019 in hiring, interview, interview-series, interviewing, job, silicon, tips, valley Read on →

Using Docker for Development

Docker has transformed the way we package and ship applications. But. did you know it can transform your development setup too?

written January 2, 2019 in dependencies, development, docker Read on →

Using UUID on Spring Data JPA Entities

In this article I’ll explore how to model a JPA Entity using an UUID as Primary Key working with Spring Data JPA.

written November 5, 2018 in data, hibernate, jpa, kotlin, spring, uuid Read on →

Reactive GraphQL Subscriptions From Kafka

In this post I’ll be exploring how to implement GraphQL subscriptions reactively on a Spring Boot application using Kafka.

written October 23, 2018 in boot, graphql, kafka, kotlin, reactive, reactor, spring, subscriptions Read on →

Book Recommendations: Radical Candor

Last week I finished Radical Candor a book by Kim Scott about how to be a good boss without being an asshole. Here’s what I learned.

written September 30, 2018 in book, manager, soft-skill Read on →

Random Thoughts on Using Gradle With Kotlin DSL

Since Gradle 3.0 you can write your build scripts using Kotlin instead of Groovy. I was curious, so I decided to give it a try. Here are my thoughts on the process.

written August 28, 2018 in gradle, kotlin, kotlin-dsl, multi-module, spring Read on →

JaCoCo & Kotlin: Coverage on Generated Code

JaCoCo works flawlessly with Kotlin. Except when it reports lines not covered on generated code 😡. Fortunately there’s a fix already in place.

written August 12, 2018 in coverage, generated, jacoco, kotlin Read on →

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