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Getting familiar with Kafka

Even though my feature team won’t communicate directly with Kafka, we’ll use a wrapper organized by another feature team, it is important to understand what is underneath. Hence first I just draft...

A new app

For a couple of weeks I’ve been on low information diet. It means that I don’t browse the feed of any social media and I don’t browse general news sites. I had not been watching TV for a long time....

4 Hours Work Week by Timothy Ferriss

Wow. If half of it, half of his stories are true, he is really a special guy. One with creativity and grit. Grit towards not to work for the sake of work, that’s for sure. Even if you are not fond...

TDD as if you meant it

The kata we picked was TDD as if you meant it. The rules are the ones of TDD, plus some additionals. These rules - such as write the code first at the test class and don’t move it until… - are not ...

Attending my first IT conference

I was really happy to finally attend an IT conference, even though I was more looking for another experience. I was envisaging attending a SocRaTes event. Maybe soon I will have the opportunity. St...

Joining a new project soon

I am going to work on a so called product#on. In my company’s terms it means a usually 3, or in this case a 6 months assignment where the participants work in startup mode. Okay. Maybe not in star...

Returned from Japan

It was fantastic and tiring. And finally I fulfilled a 5 year old promise of mine to my wife that I’d go to Japan with her. When I was in Spain a few months before, I could spend each day some tim...

Looking for challenges in open source

It does not seem to easy to find a project. I’ve been checking a lot during the last few days and starred some repositories. Mostly Java and Python ones. But that doesn’t matter that much. It seem...

Story of a failure

My IntelliJ stopped working properly. When I clicked on run tests, it only compiled the code but never ran anything. I spent some time investigating the issue, I tried to fix this erroneous state, ...

My latest user story is about being a consultant

The scrum team I am part of consists of people from several teams, including developers from a handful of different components. Even though I’m coming from one of these teams, as I had not worked o...