Setting up the JMH Gradle plugin and writing your first Java microbenchmark — 🔔 This article was originally posted on my site, MihaiBojin.com. 🔔 As a general best practice, it’s a good idea to benchmark your code. JMH, or Java Microbenchmark Harness, is a tool that can be used to analyze the performance of JVM languages. Since I wanted to profile the performance…

How to set up a brand new Java project using Gradle — 🔔 This article was originally posted on my site, MihaiBojin.com. 🔔 When building a house, you should start with a strong foundation. Similarly, creating a new open-source project requires a certain level of organization! Roughly, here is a base minimum that makes for a decent project: A version control system…

A series about writing a Java library for layering properties from multiple sources and allowing clients to efficiently receive updates. — 🔔 This article was originally posted on my site, MihaiBojin.com. 🔔 For the past year, I’ve been on and off thinking of a common problem: handling properties in Java. While the problem seems simple, dealing with multiple sources, optionality, secrets, etc., is not trivial.

Setting up a simple responsive website with Gatsby, Tailwind, and Remark. — 🔔 This article was originally posted at MihaiBojin.com. 🔔 Back in the introductory article in this series, I decided to base my tech stack on Gatsby. I won’t get into all of Gatsby’s features, but here is why I chose this tech stack: Performance: server-side rendered HTML that can be…

The two baskets I hadn’t thought about this before, but projects are like eggs. And getting the job done (a.k.a. owning your project-work until the end) is akin to carrying two egg-filled baskets. The Weight of Responsibility You can’t drop either of them. But every day, you might receive new eggs to carry. The Burden of Imbalance One of your hands…

Hey there, fellow developer! Have you ever struggled with inconsistent development environments and pesky setup discrepancies? If so, continue reading! Meet Dev(elopment) Containers, an open specification for enriching containers with development-specific content and settings. Why should I care, you say!? Because it helps you define and run your development environment…

I recently wanted to deploy and configure a Virtual Machine on Google Compute Engine using Terraform. I thought I’d document my steps to help anyone looking to achieve similar goals. Read on below and easily recreate all the steps. Good luck in all your automations! Why Terraform? By now, my preference for…

What is keyless authentication, and why would you care? — Let’s say you want a full CI/CD flow run directly from GitHub Actions. As the last steps of the deployment, you might need to authenticate to Google Cloud to deploy any changes to infrastructure and services. Since you don’t have a UI, authentication is usually performed via a service account. …

As a Java developer, I'm very happy to see this feature in the JVM! I can't help to wonder, however (sadly), if it's too late... Other languages have had this capability for a while. And I think Java has lost a lot of projects/developers in the past few years to languages such as Go. It seems to me (and would love to be proven wrong) that Java has moved into Late Majority, or dare I even say... Laggards teritory.