Talking about hiring and retaining Software Engineers: Instead of tracking vanity metrics like # of PRs or JIRA tickets. Try providing them with: - Financial stability - Psychological safety - Collaborative environment - Growth opportunities Empower them to do their best work.

unpopular opinion: if you know SQL, why would you use an ORM? the extra complexity makes simple things unnecessarily simpler, while making complex things more complex. if you *don't* know SQL, you definitely should *not* be using an ORM - you won't learn SQL by hiding from it.

I will be in Madrid next week! Come and see me talk about developer productivity. I'll also have some books to give away! meetup.com/madridjug/even…

I’m aware that many of you don’t use or have PayPal for whatever reason. Once a month we do sales by bank transfer. Today is that day! DM me with your order and I’ll do the rest 📦

"It wasn't even worthy of a single mention in his so-called landmark speech on education this summer." Rishi Sunak says Keir Starmer didn't mention school buildings in a major education speech in July - but he did.

The Micronaut Framework and @arangodb integration for Micronaut 4.0 is released github.com/GoodforGod/mic…

Debating static vs dynamic language pros/cons is always interesting to me. Just from a API design perspective, they are so different. A dynamic language forces you create the simplest API possible so that it can be committed to muscle memory since you have less tooling support

Update. She thinks I’m a teenager (I’m almost 32, only 3 years younger than her), and I’ll apparently be hearing from her lawyers for commentary on a presentation she has given lifetime access to.

Great three part blog series on HTTP/3 is full of details that I have not seen elsewhere. A takeaway is that HTTP/3 + QUIC is complex to implement and many HTTP servers are struggling to add support. smashingmagazine.com/2021/08/http3-…

It's my 15 year StackOverflow birthday 🥳 stackoverflow.com/users/6509/tim… 15 years, 2781 answers, 4975 days visited 😬 and approx 15M people reached. Even if that reach is less than 1% accurate, I'm still proud of it...

This really is an awesome feature. I remember sitting with Sergio del Amo talking about the options and before the end of the chat he had a working prototype. So much knowledge around Serverless patterns and Java optimisations built into this slick little CLI.

I'm thrilled to return to JDD (and 🇵🇱 Poland!) after 8 years! Looking forward to speaking about The Micronaut Framework and GraalVM

I need y’all’s help! If you are an Engineer working with K8s and AWS with Terraform - what is your go to interview questions to cross check those skills in interviews

in light of the classic Unity news, reminder that we have an Unreal learning discord for former unity devs might be time to think about jumping ship discord.gg/pbpCTqREK

The Micronaut Foundation is excited to announce the release of Micronaut framework 4.1.1 Please see our latest blog post for more details. micronaut.io/2023/09/13/mic… #micronaut

Are you interested in testing #Kubernetes #operators? My next article on the AtomicJar blog is for you! You will be amazed by how easy it is to test Kubernetes operators by using #Testcontainers. atomicjar.com/2023/09/testco… #quarkus Quarkus Java Operator SDK

Versions 4.0.15 (latest stable) & 5.0.0-alpha-2 (bleeding edge) of ApacheGroovy are available for download with 12 & 20 fixes & improvements respectively including some nice security fixes! Thanks to all involved! groovy.apache.org/download.html #groovylang

Good god the onion is brutal

Deloitte is hiring & looking for Java/JavaFX Developers.👍🏻🙂 linkedin.com/posts/carldea_…