Functions defined in Kotlin companion objects are often seen as the 'equivalent' of static methods in Java. Although there are some similarities, there are also some caveats you should be aware of. For example, how to use method references (or, to be pedantic: function references) to refer to functions defined in a companion object.
Since about a month I’m developing some microservices using Javalin, a small, simple and lightweight web-framework that started as a fork from SparkJava. By now it’s a ground-up rewrite, influenced by the Javascript framework koa.js. Don’t let the stuff like Either scare you, we use the Arrow library to make our life a bit more easy :)
When requesting user input from a form, it’s evident that we need to validate our input. Javalin has its own way of doing so (from the docs):
Now that it’s clear how to use an OAuth access_token in JWT to perform RBAC inside a REST service playing the role of resource server, it is time to see how to acquire such a token.
I had quite a bit of trouble finding a good article about java streams vs for loops under this name so I guess I’ll have to write it myself. In this article I would like to talk about the difference of using the Streaming API and for loops from the standpoint of long term maintainability of the code.
tl;dr: To reduce maintenance costs of your projects, please do consider using the Stream API instead of for loops. It might take some investment in learning to do so, but this investment will pay off in the long run, both for the project and for the engineers.
Nowadays we frequently see companies adopting the Elastic Stack to search, analyze and visualize application data in real time. While the scope of application data ingested these days is broadening, it’s already quite common to monitor aggregated application logs in Kibana. Because of this, I frequently find myself coming back to Kibana to slice and filter the logs to monitor how our application deployments progress through deployments. In this blogpost, I’ll outline a small Vue.js web application I wrote to more easily access our application logs.
Many companies that are undergoing a digital transformation are discovering that it is an endless endeavour. Technological innovation allows a company to become more responsive to change in their business domain, but also makes it subjective to progress in the underlying technical implementation. A lot can be said for the delivery pipeline optimizations that help deliver business value more efficiently, but how does your organisation keep up with technological innovation?
How many lines of code do you actually need to implement external Role Based Access Control (RBAC) using OAuth, JWT with the new Spring Security features? Lets find out!
Nowadays we see more and more intelligence added to our applications. This can be in any form but mostly we see it in the form of predictions or some form of recognition. This added value comes at a price and requires a new way of working within our established Software Engineering practice.
If we want to include Asciidoc markup as source language and show the markup without transforming it we can use a listing or literal block. For example we are using Asciidoc markup to write a document about Asciidoctor and want to include some Asciidoc markup examples. If the markup contains sections like a listing or literal block and it is enclosed in a listing or literal block, the tranformation goes wrong. Because the beginning of the included listing or literal block is seen as the ending of the enclosing listing or literal block. Let’s see what goes wrong with an example where we have the following Asciidoc markup:
When we transform this to HTML we get the following output:
This September, Jorrit van der Ven and I attended Heapcon in Belgrade. At this two-day conference, we shared our experiences with developing in Kotlin at the Port of Rotterdam in our talk: 'Kotlin is for hipsters'.
