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.
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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.
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Docker has transformed the way we package and ship applications. But. did you know it can transform your development setup too?
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In this article I’ll explore how to model a JPA Entity using an UUID as Primary Key working with Spring Data JPA.
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In this post I’ll be exploring how to implement GraphQL subscriptions reactively on a Spring Boot application using Kafka.
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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.
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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.
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JaCoCo works flawlessly with Kotlin. Except when it reports lines not covered on generated code 😡. Fortunately there’s a fix already in place.
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Hello! In this post I’ll explore the different alternatives for querying hierarchical data stored on a RDBMS using JPA.
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Complementing my last book recommendation on Migrating to microservices databases by Edson Yanaga now I present Migrating to Cloud-Native Application Architectures by Matt Stine.
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You’re already using Kotlin on your codebase. Maybe, you’ve even migrated to the new Kotlin DSL for Gradle. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could use Kotlin for your git hooks too?
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This is the story of how Oracle DB was messing up Kotlin’s type system, and what I did to fix it.
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Here are a couple of IntelliJ IDEA shortcuts and configurations I wish I’d known sooner.
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Implementing takeWhileInclusive extension function in Kotlin.
Just finished reading Migrating to microservices databases by Edson Yanaga. If you can relate to the 3 nouns in the title then you’ll want to check it out.
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This post is about the clever tricks you can pull with Spring new functional routing and it’s Kotlin DSL.
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Following up of my previous post, I was curious how a parallel map operation would look like using Java’s parallelStream. Here’s what I find out.
Ever wonder how to run map in parallel using coroutines? This is how you do it.
I finally got around to finish the new book my friend and colleague @talabes wrote and I think it’s great. Here’s why.
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A post about how to add exclusions to your Jacoco test coverage verification in Gradle.
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This is the story of a real use case that was solved by using Go style channels in Kotlin.
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The first thing you learn about Knockout is about observables. The second thing is computed observables. They are dead simple. They even form part of the Hello World example. But then, the magic was not working for me. Here’s why:
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 This week I needed to test a class that depended on a method from an static class. I saw we were using PowerMock and thought to myself: “Well this sounds pretty common, I bet it’s easy to accomplish”. But of course I ran into half a dozen issues before I was able to make it work. Here’s my two cents to make your experience easier than mine.
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Last installment of the series. 9 Tips to become the leader you’d like to follow.
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Third post of the series. Today: some advice on how to convince people to your way of thinking. This is a long, but juicy post.
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Second post of the series on the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie. I know, How to make people like you sounds soooo lame, but stick with me, this is a good chapter.
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This is the first of a series of posts on the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie. Today: Handling People.
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This is from a presentation I gave at work about how to design APIs that don’t suck. You can download the whole presentation from here
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In this post I’ll introduce the concept of Feature Toggles as a release alternative to FeatureBranches. This technique is also known as: Feature toggles, Feature switches, Feature flippers, etc.
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Here I’ll show you how you can email a Google Form daily, weekly or whatever. I’ll achieve this by using Google App Scripts. Here we go
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So I was learning to animate Views in Android using this video and was having trouble with the second time the animation runned. First run the objects end up in their destination, second run it was mayhem. I had fallen victim to the great misunderstanding everyone makes about Android animations: they are just a magic trick.
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We were having a race condition on a server which was “fixed” by adding an sleep to the thread to check again later. Yes, it sucked, so I decided to make something more sophisticated and went looking for a library to handle retryies with multiple strategies. That’s when I first read about Guava Retrying
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Remember my last post on value types using Google’s AutoValue? Today while doing some work on a new Android project I’m starting I thought: ‘Great chance to use AutoValue!’. Guess what, there is a port of Google AutoValue for the Android platform.
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Value types is a fancy name for those classes where you have to implement equals() and hashCode(), and usually toString(). You’ve probably wrote thounsands of those classes, but have you ever wonder why do you have write almost 50 lines of code to express such a common concept?
Implementing compare() and compareTo() methods was never fun. Luckily Guava provides an utility that makes comparison methods easier to write and more pleasing to the eye.
I’m starting a series of posts on Guava (Google’s core libraries). Today I am going to start with null, how to use it, and how to avoid it when necessary.
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There are billions of blogs written by more experienced and talented devs, there is stackoverflow.com and communities for each tool and language ever created, so why bother creating yet another dev blog? Here are the two reasons why I started this blog.
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