Published in Geek Culture·PinnedMember-onlyHow I Built an Overengineered Serverless Uptime CheckerRecently I was working on a project where we were working with a third party in order to process different Office files. This third-party had both a production tenant as well as a development tenant as can be common with these types of integrations. The development tenant was much less…Serverless6 min readServerless6 min read
Published in CodeX·Nov 10Member-onlyDynamoDB And Incomplete Result SetsIn a recent project I worked on DynamoDB was used as the data store. The project was an internal utility that would get spiky utilization. It would go from zero traffic to a non-insignificant amount of usage in a short time. …Dynamodb4 min readDynamodb4 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Oct 26Member-onlySteps to Fast Track Your Growth As a Software EngineerBeing a software engineer presents a great opportunity in the current job market. There is a great need for software professionals which creates many opportunities for software engineers. At the same time, many motivated and passionate individuals work in the field. Given this, how does one stand out from others…Career Development8 min readCareer Development8 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Sep 26Member-onlyProgrammer’s Writer Block: Make It Work, Make It Right, Make It FastDesigning software is often a daunting task. We often confront problems that we may not initially know how to solve. Staring at a blank IDE with no clue where to start can lead to a programmer’s version of writer’s block. Similar to what is suggested to get over writer’s block…Programming5 min readProgramming5 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Sep 12Member-onlyUnderstanding The History of Dates and Years Through the Julian and Gregorian CalendarsThe natural world has only given us two units of time determined by the cosmos, that is the year and the day. Months, hours, minutes, and seconds are all human inventions that have no basis in the natural world. Days and years are not this way though. A day, of…Software Development5 min readSoftware Development5 min read
Published in Dev Genius·Aug 30Member-onlyThe Story Of The System: Discovering the “Why” Behind The SystemSoftware development can be a fast-paced world, different fads come and go through the industry, many times what was old becomes new again and there are no less than three dozen vendors vying for you to build your system using their technology. This is just the nature of the industry…Software Architecture8 min readSoftware Architecture8 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Aug 23Member-onlyJava Virtual Threads: Millions of Threads Within GraspVirtual threads in Java have been a long-awaited feature in the Java language and we are finally getting to play with it in as a preview feature of Java 19. Virtual threads were added in JEP-425 as part of Project Loom. …Java11 min readJava11 min read
Published in CodeX·Aug 10Member-onlyMitigating SQL Injection in The Non-Standard WaysSQL injection is an extremely critical security vulnerability. There is good reason that injection has had a prominent location in the OWASP Top 10 since its inception. Often the sophistication needed to successfully perform a SQL injection is low but the damage can be extremely high. This is a very…Security5 min readSecurity5 min read
Published in Dev Genius·Aug 3Member-onlyAnalyzing New Unique Identifier Formats (UUIDv6, UUIDv7, and UUIDv8)I have written before about UUIDs and other unique identifiers. As a reminder UUIDs are 128-bit identifiers that strive for unique identifier generation without requiring the generation to be done in a centralized location. The specification for UUIDs was written in 2005 and is defined in RFC 4122. This specification…Software Development10 min readSoftware Development10 min read
Published in Dev Genius·Jul 18Member-onlyPerformance Differences of Java StreamsRecently I was working on a piece of functionality where we ended up with a collection of items that each had a status of if they had been successfully handled or not. At this particular part of the application, we needed to do certain actions on items that were successfully…Java4 min readJava4 min read
