Attention: This article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.In my time with Keyhole, I’ve been involved in a number of projects where the client was asking us to rewrite a legacy system …
Scaling Spring Batch – Step Partitioning
Attention: This article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.We have talked about how to get up and running with Spring Batch in a few of previous articles. Now, we’re going to start …
Don’t Fear the Rapid
Attention: This article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.The term Rapid Application Development, or RAD, has been around for a few years. From the way it’s avoided in all sensible software development …
Gradle: do we need another build tool?
Attention: This article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.In the early days of Java development, we either didn’t see much of a need for build tools, or used what we had from …
An argument against defaulting to auto-increment primary keys
Attention: This article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.The de-facto “easy” primary key for ages has been the auto-incrementing integer. Upon insertion of a new record, the database simply increments a counter …










