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Stress. It eats energy. For the last few months, I’ve been rather busy winding down my responsibilities at the Rabobank, preparing myself for interviews with prospective new clients and finally getting a new contract with a new client that I was 100% satisfied with. When it was all over
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Many of us use gitlab in our current project but do not truly understand the basics. For this meetup we decided to investigate how building a pipeline works by building and deploying a simple spring boot application. The application was based on a tutorial I found, which basically covers building
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Being a company that specialises in building software for the JVM using mostly Kotlin (but still Java at times, we still love Java), doesn't mean we do not have an interest for other languages. For the second meetup in 2021 we opted to look into Rust, a systems
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For the first internal meetup of this year we decided to have a look at gRPC (https://grpc.io/). From their website: "gRPC is a modern open source high performance RPC framework that can run in any environment. It can efficiently connect services in and across data centers with
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The year 2020 has been one of a kind. Work life was characterized by communicating with colleagues exclusively through messaging and video calls. No physical get-togethers at the office, in the bar or in a restaurant. Our home offices (a.k.a. dinner tables) received makeovers to make this way
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The last internal meetup of the year normally ends with an awesome company event and a great dinner where we get to enjoy the finest food and maybe a glass of wine or two ;) But not this year, COVID made that impossible, but nevertheless we tried to keep up the
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In October 2020 we had our meetup about Android basics. Development for Android is a bit different than regular JVM development. Android developers have been stuck with Java 1.6 via the Dalvik JVM for way too long. Recently OpenJDK has been added to newer devices as the Virtual Machine
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On September 25th we had our monthly meetup, this time about Java CompletableFutures. CompletableFuture was introduced in Java 8 as a concurrency API improvement to the Future interface (of Java 5) and further improved in Java 9. This class is used for asynchronous programming in Java. Asynchronous programming is difficult
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bol.com, the Netherlands largest online retailer, has been a client of Sourcelabs for many years. Recently we had the opportunity to co-organized a tech day for one of the product areas within bol.com. The primary goal of the day was to have fun and give the teams within
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Building scalable Java applications using Threads can be quite a challenge. Java Threads are also known for using a lot of OS-resources especially comparing them with lightweight alternative like Fibers or Kotlin coroutines (off which we are a huge fan here at Sourcelabs). Project Loom is the promising lightweight JVM
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Even though it’s been several years, I still remember being a Spring newbie very clearly. (2003, me (far right blue sweater) in the computer lab where I wrote my first Java application). I’d be working on some big fat legacy system which was more akin to archaeology than
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Every last Friday of the month we as Sourcelabs come together for our internal meetup. The goal of this meetup is to learn new things and to have fun together. Normally we would end our day with a tasty dinner, but unfortunately due to the coronavirus that wasn't