With techniques such as continuous delivery becoming more mainstream, automated database migrations are a baseline capability for many software teams. Flyway is a tool that anyone with basic knowledge of SQL can use to set up and maintain database schemas. Database migration with Flyway is gaining high traction in the industry primarily due to its […]Continue reading
In part one and part two of this series, we understood ChatGPT. We also learned what prompt priming is and how to use modifiers in prompts. In models like ChatGPT. A prompt is a text input provided to the model to generate a corresponding output or response. The quality and relevance of the prompt can […]Continue reading
In the first part of this series, we provided an overview of ChatGPT. We also explored the optimal application of basic prompt priming to achieve more effective responses from ChatGPT. This post is specifically designed for programmers interested in learning how to effectively use modifiers to craft prompts. If you haven’t yet gone through Part […]Continue reading
Programming has always been about communicating with machines. However, with the advancement of AI, there is an increasing demand for programming tools that can communicate with humans too. This is where AI Tools, like Github Copilot and ChatGPT come in. This series of posts is designed for programmers who are interested in learning how to […]Continue reading
One of the exceptions that every Java Programmer must have faced is NullPointerException. They are hard to debug and cause unexpected termination of your application. To better handle NullPointerException, Java 8 has introduced the Optional class. In this post, I’ll explain how to use Optional in Java applications. Optional Overview The main benefit of the […]Continue reading
When you work in Enterprise Spring applications, you will often need to establish mappings between your entities. JPA one-to-many mapping is one such example. At the database level, one-to-many mapping means that one row in a table is mapped to multiple rows in another table. In this post, I’ll explain how to implement JPA one-to-many […]Continue reading
Spring Boot Microservices requires authentication of users, and one way is through JSON Web Token (JWT). JWT is an open standard (RFC 7519) that defines a compact mechanism for securely transmitting information between parties. In this post, I will explain how to implement JWT authentication in Spring Microservices. JWT Token Overview JWT is of relatively […]Continue reading
Hikari Connection Pool commonly referred to as HikariCP is a very fast light weight Java connection pool. A connection pool is a cache of database connections. A Connection Pool maintains connections that can be reused when future requests to the database are required. In this post, I will explain Hikari Configuration for Spring Boot 2 […]Continue reading
In September 2021, Java 17 was released as the latest LTS (long-term support) replacing Java 11. Now the big question is “What is new in Java 17?” Java 17 has 14 JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEP) items. Out of those, there are 10 new features, 2 feature removals, and deprecation of 2 features. In this post, […]Continue reading
On December 16th, 2021, with the announcement from the Spring Team, the next major release is Spring Framework 6. The whole objective is to cover Spring’s baseline upgrade efforts, in particular requiring JDK 17+ and migrating to the Jakarta EE 9 APIs, So we should be Getting Ready for upgrading to Spring Framework 6. Important […]Continue reading
