Microservice architecture and containerization have become the standards of modern application development. The challenges that developers face today are different from the problems that we used to solve earlier. Creators of the Java runtime respond to this with the appropriate functionality in the JDK. For example, an inexpensive cloud instance …
Every programmer has asked themselves “how many comments are too many?” To the newest programmers, comments may seem magical–a way of documenting without giving instructions to the computer. But commenting engages the same vulnerability as more advanced challenges (i.e. pair programming & code review) and is likely to pique the …
Are you thinking about using Containers? Why should I worry about security? Why is everything DevOps? Isn’t shift left just a fancy way of saying ‘do it earlier’? Let’s talk about real life experiences and what are some of the reasons why we should worry about the details and show …
This presentation demonstrates how to build an application which can interact with devices (IoT) such as a coffee machine. First, it shows how this is build and how you connect devices and let them do something. The human interaction with this application makes use of AI: to translate speech into …
Great software products outlive technologies, ideas, even gurus. Yet, every software developer steps in a maze of code, where he/ she can get lost or leave a trail out. Watch this practical lecture on how to troubleshoot large code bases, and how to build your own code so it lasts …
Many software developers fail to reach their productivity not due to lack of technical ability but for lack of mental organization and discipline. It is extremely helpful to always hold in one’s mind the answer to the question: “What exactly am I trying to achieve at this particular moment?” It …
