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New Book Review: "Gradle Essentials"

New book review for Gradle Essentials, by Kunal Dabir and Abhinandan, Packt Publishing, 2015, reposted here: The only relatively recently published (circa early-2018) text on mastering Gradle fundamentals. Although I have been a long-time Apache Maven user, I admittedly resisted a move to Gradle a few years ago when some

From the Trenches: Technology Radar Volume #17

Introduction The title of this post is influenced by a 2012 post of mine which went into detail discussing a suite of commercial products that I had used on a project at that time, with the tagline "from the trenches" to emphasize that my writing was from personal

Media Query Source: Part 11

The responses I provided to a media outlet on February 8, 2018: Media: Why are microservices becoming so popular with large brands like Netflix? Are they the future of app building? Are smaller companies seeing the same benefits? Do microservices bring the same benefits to small scale projects with small

Media Query Source: Part 10

The responses I provided to a media outlet on January 30, 2018: Media: What is likely to happen with open source in the coming years? This coming week we'll be celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Open Source, which is officially celebrated on February 3rd. It has come a

New Book Review: "Spring Boot Messaging"

New book review for Spring Boot Messaging: Messaging APIs for Enterprise and Integration Solutions, by Felipe Gutierrez, Apress, 2017, reposted here: When I first ran across this text, I debated whether it would make sense to acquire a copy for a recent client project of mine. As a relatively early

New Book Review: "RabbitMQ in Depth"

New book review for RabbitMQ in Depth, by Gavin M. Roy, Manning Publications, 2018, reposted here: The bottom line: this book is one of the best organized, succinctly written technology texts I have ever run across, with a phenomenal mix of text, diagrams, and code. So if you are looking

Media Query Source: Part 7

The responses I provided to a media outlet on August 8, 2017: Media: How to Explain Microservices in Plain English. My responses addressed the more detailed questions as follows: Media: How do you define microservices succinctly? Gfesser: A microservice can be described as an independently running application that is responsible

New Book Review: "Spring Microservices"

New book review for Spring Microservices, by Rajesh RV, Packt Publishing, 2016, reposted here: The mix of theory and practice that this book provides is among the best I have ever run across, although those looking to potentially work through this book should be aware that a number of issues

Ubuntu on Windows: Part 2

About 3 months ago, I posted about my move to Windows 10 with the new laptop I received (Dell 5510 32GB RAM), configuring it for dual boot mode with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS after contemplating installation of Cygwin on another machine yet again, prior to my recollection of a Microsoft

Media Query Source: Part 4

The responses I provided to a media outlet on May 3, 2017: Media: The place of databases in DevOps. My responses addressed the more detailed questions as follows: Media: How often is the database being changed? Gfesser: The frequency of database changes will vary. As a general rule, there will