If you have services or domains in your architecture, you probably have them to be able to develop them independently. In most cases, Message Queue’s are used to communicate between these…
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Google Charts is an awesome platform to create great-looking interactive charts, from simple scatter plots to timelines or treemaps. I needed a way to create the required data for a chart on…
Previously, we posted a blogpost about hashed password storage. In our most recent First8 friday videoblog, I presented this strategy. If we have hashed passwords based on a fast algorithm,…
In a project we are working on, we need to serve a lot of images. These images are user-controlled content and as such we need to dynamically scale and serve…
In a previous blog post we discussed a bit on how you can integrate Keycloak with JAX-RS. In this blog post we’ll show an example on how to build an integration test…
If you are developing a website with external users, those users might require support. For the people providing support, it can be quite convenient to be able to log in…
Logging in the Java world unfortunately is complicated. Due to Parkinson’s Law of Triviality we ended up with an endless list of libraries that provide logging capabilities, up to the point…
Working with the latest technology can be quite painful. Not necessarily because the software is buggy or immature, in my experience it is mostly because googling for a problem gives…
This is the blogpost as promised in the First8 Friday video blog of August 2015. This post presents the idea of storing passwords as safely as possible for the purpose…
Sometimes you may need to mock Grails (application) configuration in an unit or integration test. E.g. you want to test code which normally would access the property jmxEnabled from the following configuration…