VS Code for Java development is better than past but still not good enough — VS Code is faster than IntelliJ, and because of this important reason (at least for me), I usually try to run my real Java project on VS Code, and every time I find the result better than past. …

Using JDK tools inside the Kubernetes — When you run Java programs on a desktop or a server, you can quickly get heap or thread dump using JDK tools like jmap, jstack Or other tools and commands. But in the Kubernetes environment, you don't have access to the container in which your java application is included directly…

Fill the gap between theory and practice about cloud-native — This month I finished the Cloud Native Patterns book by Cornelia Davis, which I found very helpful. This book helped me improve my knowledge about cloud-native concepts and best practices, so I decided to write a review or maybe an introduction about this fantastic book from Cornelia Davis. Before start…

My review as a participant, Presentation videos, and more — Spring I/O 2022 was terrific for me, it came back as an in-person event after two years, and I attended this fantastic conference in Barcelona (26–27 May 2022). It was the 9th in-person edition of this conference, with more than 60 presentations, six workshops, and 1200 attendees. …

Compare two big JSON objects in Java tests easily — When I am writing tests to confirm the JSON structure generated in the API with the expected structure, I almost always prefer to use the JSON path for this job, but In some scenarios, you can’t use the JSON path and write one assertion for each field in the expected…

Go for embedded systems, Kubernetes co-founder talks, Docker Community All-Hands, Knative, S3 Select query, Flutter & Reactive Native comparison, Cassandra concepts and … — This is the first episode of the Hand-picked content for software engineers. In these episodes, I will try to share some hand-pick content (Article, podcast, video, and book) that I enjoyed from reading, watching, or listening to them in earlier weeks. I think they are useful for every software engineer.

Downgrade spring-boot-starter-test to use Junit 4 instead of 5 — As you know, from Spring Boot 2.2 when you add the spring-boot-starter-test dependency to your Spring Boot project, your project will be configured to use JUnit 5. It does not make sense to downgrade the JUnit version to 4 when you start a Spring Boot project from scratch with version…

Some tips to fix the minimum system requirements problem — Installing Windows 11 on Mac using the latest version of VMware Fusion (version 12.2 for now) is not straightforward, and you will get this error: This PC doesn’t meet the minimum system requirements to install this version of Windows.

Drastic changes in the Hootsuite free plan — About 2 years ago, I wrote this post when I wanted to decide about choosing a free software application to manage some social networks accounts and compared Buffer and Hootsuite (their free plans). Buffer vs. Hootsuite: Which one is better for free use? Importance of Social Media Management (even free!)zarinfam.medium.com At that time I chose Hootsuite free plan against buffer because of the number of scheduled posts…