Nicolas Frankel

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Nicolas Frankel

May 16

Toying with Kotlin's context receivers

#kotlin #programming #maintainability

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The worst thing I did in Rust

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May 22

Evolving your RESTful APIs, a step-by-step approach

Thanks a lot for your kind feedback, I appreciate it!

May 15

Beautify your GitHub repo

How are man-pages related? 🤔

Apr 18

Beautify your GitHub repo

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Apr 18

APISIX, an API Gateway the Apache way

Having a bit of experience (i.e., being an old geezer), I liv...

Mar 27

Welcome to the Golden Age of Developer Advocacy

Interesting. However, the post doesn't mention engagement at ...

Feb 23

The Flatten Maven plugin

looking forward when it's released It's available right no...

Jan 31

Will a couple of line markers in IDE make your microservice code mode readable?

I saw this plugin mentioned in a couple of places. I'm betwee...

Jan 13

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Nicolas Frankel

May 9

Conditional build on GitLab

#gitlab #devops #build #continuousdeployment

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Nicolas Frankel

May 1

Securely authenticate to Google Cloud from GitHub

#github #googlecloud #authentication #oidc

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Apr 24

Chopping the monolith

#microservices #architecture #informationsystem #systems

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Apr 17

Beautify your GitHub repo

#github #license #readme #improvement

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Apr 10

Rust in Action

#bookreview #rust #systemprogramming #programming

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Apr 3

Handling null: optional and nullable types

#null #java #kotlin #functional

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Nicolas Frankel for Apache APISIX

Mar 27

APISIX, an API Gateway the Apache way

#microservices #api #apigateway #systemdesign

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Nicolas Frankel

Mar 20

Error handling across different languages

#errors #languagedesign #java #rust

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Mar 13

Lessons learned from previous projects

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Mar 6

Alternatives to DTO

#java #architecture #cargocult #dto

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Nicolas Frankel for Apache APISIX

Feb 27

Evolving your RESTful APIs, a step-by-step approach

#rest #api #devops

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Nicolas Frankel

Feb 20

Avoiding Stringly-typed in Kotlin

#kotlin #typesystem #strongtyping #api

4 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Feb 13

System Logger

#java #logging #api

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Nicolas Frankel

Feb 6

The Gilded Rose Kata in Rust

#rust #refactoring #kata

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Nicolas Frankel

Jan 30

The Flatten Maven plugin

#java #maven #build #plugin

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Nicolas Frankel

Jan 23

Treat security as a risk

#security #risk #riskmanagement

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Nicolas Frankel

Jan 16

You're running untrusted code!

#java #security #securitymanager #log4shell

7 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Jan 9

A tentative comparison of fault tolerance libraries on the JVM

#java #resilience #microservices #http

5 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Dec 19 '21

Beautify third-party API with Kotlin

#kotlin #api #extension #thirdparty

3 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Dec 12 '21

Native-image with Quarkus

#kotlin #quarkus #nativeimage #graalvm

8 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Dec 5 '21

Multiple Spring Boot applications in the same project

#java #springboot #demo #architecture

3 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Nov 28 '21

Port management in your local Kubernetes cluster

#kubernetes #devops #demo #apachewebserver

2 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Nov 21 '21

Native-image with Micronaut

#kotlin #micronaut #nativeimage #graalvm

7 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Nov 14 '21

Native-image with Spring Boot

#kotlin #nativeimage #springboot #graalvm

10 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Nov 7 '21

Extending third-party APIs in different languages

#api #language #design #extension

6 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Oct 31 '21

A list of cache providers

#java #cache #performance

17 min read

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Oct 28 '21

Hazelcast + Kibana: best buddies for exploring and visualizing data

#datascience #kotlin #elasticsearch #dataviz

24 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Oct 24 '21

Choosing a cache - capabilities

#cache #beginners #architecture #java

8 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Oct 17 '21

Kotlin and FaaS, an impossible union?

#kotlin #serverless #faas #jvm

4 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Oct 10 '21

Faster Maven builds in Docker

#maven #java #docker #build

9 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Oct 3 '21

Faster Maven builds

#java #maven #ci #performance

7 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Sep 26 '21

Multiple ways to configure Spring

#java #spring #kotlin #configuration

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Nicolas Frankel

Sep 19 '21

Reassessing TestNG vs. Junit

#java #junit #testng

5 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Sep 12 '21

Annotation-free Spring

#java #kotlin #spring #functional

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Nicolas Frankel

Sep 5 '21

On metrics

#agile #management #metrics #continuousimprovement

6 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Aug 29 '21

On online public speaking

#publicspeaking #devrel #covid

4 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Aug 22 '21

Free Docker registries

#devops #docker #cloud #free

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Nicolas Frankel

Aug 15 '21

Updating data files, commits vs. pull requests

#github #bigdata #automation #git

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3 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Aug 8 '21

Rust's Vector

#rust #beginners #basics #collection

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Nicolas Frankel

Aug 1 '21

GitLab as your Continuous Deployment one-stop shop

#devops #gitlab #continuousdeployment #docker

4 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Jul 25 '21

diceroller, a sample Rust project

#beginners #rust #rpg #randomness

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Nicolas Frankel

Jul 18 '21

Rust and the JVM

#rust #beginners #java #jni

6 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Jul 11 '21

A Rust controller for Kubernetes

#beginners #rust #kubernetes #learning

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Nicolas Frankel

Jul 4 '21

Rust on the front-end

#rust #beginners #webassembly #webdev

7 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Jun 27 '21

The Rustlings exercises - part 2

#rust #beginners #learning #practice

3 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Jun 20 '21

BlockHound: how it works

#reactiveprogramming #java #blockhound

5 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Jun 13 '21

The Rustlings exercises - part 1

#rust #beginners #learning #practice

5 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Jun 6 '21

My second cup of Rust

#rust #beginners #learning

6 min read

Nicolas Frankel

May 30 '21

My first cup of Rust

#rust #beginners #learning

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Nicolas Frankel

May 23 '21

Hacking third-party APIs on the JVM

#java #hack #api

8 min read

Nicolas Frankel

May 16 '21

Timely computation of derived values

#algorithms #performance #computation #cache

2 min read

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May 13 '21

Querying Your In-Memory-Data-Grid: Why and How?

#sql #cache #inmemorydatagrid #query

8 min read

Nicolas Frankel

May 9 '21

Teeing, a hidden gem in the Java API

#java #stream #api #teeing

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Nicolas Frankel

May 2 '21

A real-world example of a Stream Collector

#java #stream #functional #api

4 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Apr 25 '21

An example of overengineering - keep it WET

#overengineering #goodpractice #wet #dry

2 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Apr 18 '21

A look at Kotlin's delegation

#kotlin #delegation #pattern

4 min read

Nicolas Frankel for Hazelcast

Apr 16 '21

Hazelcast, from Embedded to Client-Server

#java #architecture #deployment #polyglot

8 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Apr 11 '21

Your own custom Spring Data repository

#java #springdata #springboot #customization

6 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Apr 4 '21

Changing a field's type in recent JDKs

#java #security #hack #jvm

5 min read

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