Step 1 — Come up with a great topic It’s critical that you pick a topic people won’t be able to put down. If you were to attend a technical conference today, imagine what are people talking about. Because if they’re talking about, they’re probably willing to purchase a book about it! Back in 2014, Spring Boot made its…

I recently picked up a curious ticket. Someone was using an obscure combination of features inside Spring Data JPA. In particular, DTO objects and paging. Say what? Did you know you can write JPQL statements like this? SELECT new com.example.CustomDto(u.firstname, u.lastname) from User u What you’re doing is essentially pre-converting…

As mentioned in my previous article, people select relational over NoSQL databases for new projects. Big time. We’re talking 80% of the time. That’s 4-to-1 for you odds makers. …

…even if the “main” code doesn’t need to change. As the lead for Spring Data JPA, I have had to learn a LOT of details about how this toolkit works. …

There’s a saying: The best things in life are free. While I’m not convinced this is even remotely true, when it comes to offloading user management on a major tech company at no cost, Google is the way to go! In my previous article, we explored how to register an…

One of the coolest things people reach for in building web apps, is off loading authentication to one of the three biggies: Facebook, Twitter, or Google. Why maintain a list of users when there is someone else (with considerably bigger budgets) ready to do that for you? So as part…

If you’re a coder, and you’re reading this, then the odds are ever in your favor that you’re building an app. And let’s cut to the chase. This probably isn’t some dream app YOU came up with. In all likelihood, you’re building an app for boss/customer/contract. There are hobbyists and…

There is a movement afoot in the open source world. It’s called reproducible builds. What exactly is that? And why would we need it? To answer the first question, it may be better to answer the second question. When it comes to delivering software, there can be a lot of…

I posted a poll to my YouTube channel’s Community tab a couple months ago asking “What best describes you?” The options sought out whether the reader was studying coding, a fledgling developer, or a seasoned pro. Since over 2/3 of the audience responded to being relatively new to the field…