A deep look at some of the new features in Spring Boot 3.2 — Recently, Spring Boot Team announced the release of Spring Boot 3.2, and we are excited to share some of the most exciting features coming in the release. This release introduces numerous new features and enhancements. Check the release notes page to view the complete list. · 1- Support for Virtual…

Deploying a Helm chart with Skaffold — Previously, I wrote a series of Medium stories containing six parts and showed the development process of a simple cloud-native Spring Boot application (Employee App) locally on Minikube using Skaffold: Continuous development using Skaffold for Spring Boot app on a local Minikube Part 2— Develop and debug Spring Boot application on local Kubernetes Using Skaffold and Cloud Codeitnext.io

Find out more about Digma (the first Continuous Feedback platform) — Before attending the Jforum Stockholm #116 event about “OpenTelemetry and cloud availability”, I had never heard of the concept of Continuous Feedback. It was my first time attending an event organized by Jforum Stockholm. For this event, the host was a Swedish IT consulting company called CAG. Two talk was…

Install macOS 14 (Sonoma) on your unsupported Mac — With the release of each new version of macOS, Apple stops supporting many older Macs. As I mentioned in my recent story about upgrading my Intel-based Macbook Pro to macOS Sonoma, many Mac models from 2017 and earlier do not get any official updates to macOS 14 (Sonoma) anymore. Should We update our Intel-based Mac to macOS 14 Sonoma? A developer’s point of view on updating to macOS Sonomazarinfam.medium.com

Do we really need Test Slices to write unit tests? — We usually follow layered architecture to develop Spring Boot applications, In a typical 3-layer architecture, we have a Controller, Service, and Repository layers. Each bean has a responsibility in this architecture and belongs to a layer, and to write unit tests for that bean, we need to take the upper…

Samsung started convergence with Linux on Dex and continues with an enlarged One UI for Desktop! — The idea behind the Samsung Dex was initially more attractive than now for me when, about four years ago, Samsung announced it with Linux on Dex feature. Having Android in two modes (mobile and desktop) besides Linux was one of my dreams. However, Samsung decided to discontinue Linux on Dex…

AI-based Coding Assistant for free — One of the key reasons AI coding assistants matter is their ability to enhance efficiency and accelerate the development process. Providing real-time code suggestions allows developers to focus more on their design objectives and logic rather than spending time perusing documentation or searching for code snippets. This reduces potential mistakes…

How I built my productivity loop using TickTick — Without any doubt, Focus, Task Management, and Time Tracking are three important aspects of being productive. For years, I have used the Pomodoro technique for being focused during a task and, on the other hand, for Task management and Time Tracking, I have tried a lot of task management, todo…

Is it a good idea to call the WebClient block() operation!? — WebClient was introduced in Spring Framework 5, and the goal was to replace it with RestTemplate (Spring’s RestTemplate, which is now in maintenance mode). In this story, we want to answer these questions: Can WebClient be used in a Spring Project that uses the Web MVC stack? If so, how…