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…

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. …

2022 edition If you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand something, write about it. If you want to master something, teach it. ― Yogi Bhajan When it comes to software development, I am interested in almost every topic there is. For over two years…

(one from the archive) This is an old post, originally posted on my site: https://MihaiBojin.com/ in 2021. As it turns out, running a site from scratch was suboptimal. …