Recently I wanted to add some additional security layers to a server that I administer. To a seasoned admin, this will be old news, but I’m a hobbyist and just learned about this. Maybe some of you find it useful as well. If you have a server that is publically accessible, when you look at …
My last article covered my first steps with using Pact to implement Consumer Driven Contracts. One thing that I left out intentionally was working with the Pact Broker to share contract between consumers and providers. This post looks at just that.
Consumer driven contracts have been around for years. I got frustrated with the state of the official documentation and other available resources, so in this post I try to come up with an easy to follow approach to start implementing them using Pact.
For a project I’m currently working on we are using the well-known tool Postman to test the http API of a service that we are developing and maintaining. I have been using it to test single requests in the past, but as it comes with a lot of features and can feel a bit bloated …
Since recently I’m working on an open source project hosted on a Gitlab instance. We also manage project issues in Gitlab and in my commit messages I reference those issues, where appropriate. I do this by prefixing the commit message with a hashmark and the issue number. A commit message can look like that: #123: …
In our work projects we use a lot of git branches. Over time, the number of branches in my local repository grows and it gets more complicated to find specific branches. For this reason I like to cleanup untracked branches every now and then, and because this is only an issue every few months, I keep …
I’ve been using SdkMan! for a long time, it makes it quite easy to manage multiple versions of different frameworks. I’ve been almost exclusivly using it to manage Java SDK versions over the past years, and although I’m mostly writing code in Kotlin recently every now and then I’m also looking at Java based projects. …
I’ve been a long-time user of Enpass and while it’s a fine password manager I looked into Bitwarden some months ago and started using it. Bitwarden can be used as a managed service and that’s what I did for some time now. Same as Enpass it’s quite advanced and integrates nicely into my working environment.
Ever since I started my blog, I’ve been using HTTPS to serve its content using encrypted connections. At first I used TLS certificates issued by Namecheap but when Let’s Encrypt entered the arena it didn’t take long for me to switch. More than the pricing aspect, it was just so much easier to manage the …
In my last two blog posts I wrote about a library called Testcontainers. It’s a Java wrapper around docker containers and you can use it to run software that your application depends on in a test context. My last post presented a solution that makes it easier to start up an Infinispan caching server. This …
