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This post discusses how easy it is to manage your log when you use containers. You can easily use Docker to redirect your logs to a single file. How cool is that? I was in the midst of a big deployment to AWS when I wrote this one. Docker is the only way to go. […]
Why is unit testing important? This is one of those titles that you almost have to click. I wrote this one for NCrunch, a testing tools company, a while back. The original is here. What’s the point of unit testing? Why is it important? Even if you’ve never heard the question asked in so […]
Scalyr’s “Getting Started” blog series has covered a ton of different platforms and languages. I’ve had the privilege of writing a handful of the posts, and each one of them has been a lot of fun. This one is about logging with Apple’s Swift language. You can find the original post here. We’ve covered how […]
DZone has just released their 2019 Guide to Java and I am proud to say that I wrote an article for it! You can download the whole guide here, or check out my post over here.
I’ve cross-posted a few of the blogs I’ve written for Scalyr here. They offer a powerful log management tool. Plus, their blog is a valuable resource for any developer or administrator that has to deal with logs. So, for all developers and administrators. Now you can get my blogs, along with entries from many […]
How do you feel about spelling errors in code? I wrote about them for SubMain on their blog. You’re checking out some code. It’s been a long time since you looked at this project. Or maybe it’s the first time. You point your editor at an interesting file name and double-click to open it. Your […]
What’s the difference between microservices and SOA? The two design paradigms have a lot in common. That makes sense when you consider that microservices are an offshoot of the SOA movement. But there are essential differences between the two systems. Let’s take a look at the two different approaches to architecture and highlight where they […]
Oracle will release Java 12 in March and it comes with a handful of new features. I’m going to cover them in the next few posts. We’ll start this week with switch expressions. I’ll take a look at how they change how you’ll use the language. A Basic Class Let’s start with a simple car […]
Here’s a post I wrote about my other working langauge, C++. You can find the original over on Typemock. There’s an old expression developers use when someone makes a mistake. They say you “shot yourself in the foot.” There’s a variation on the joke that describes the experience of shooting yourself in the foot in […]
I mentioned how much I enjoy working with Python last week. Here’s another post where I used it to solve a company sysadmin problem.The original post is over here. You have log files from two or more applications, and you need to see them together. Viewing the data together in proper sequence will make it […]
