Author Archives: Michael Simons

GraalVM and proxy bindings with embedded languages.

26-Nov-21

A while ago I had the opportunity to publish a post in the GraalVMs Medium blog titled The many ways of polyglot programming with GraalVM which is still accurate. A year later, the GraalVM just got better in many dimensions: Faster, supporting JDK17 and I think its documentation is now quite stellar. Have a look […]

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Testing in a modular world

19-Oct-21

I am not making a secret out of it, I am a fan of the Java Module system and I think it can provide benefit for library developers the same way it brings for the maintainers and developers of the JDK themselves. If you are interested in a great overview, have a look at this […]

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Yet another incarnation of my ongoing scrobbles

03-Oct-21

These days my computer work is mostly concerned with all things Neo4j. Being it Spring Data Neo4j, the Cypher DSL, our integration with other frameworks and tooling or general internal things, among them being part of the Cypher language group. In contrast to a couple of years, I don’t spent that much time around a […]

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Review: Sketchnotes in der IT

08-Aug-21

Lisa Maria Moritz und der dpunkt.verlag waren so nett, mir ein Rezensionsexemplar von “Sketchnotes in der IT” zuzuschicken. Dieses Review ist auf Deutsch, da Lisa Marias Buch auch auf Deutsch verfasst ist. Lisa Maria ist Senior Consultant bei INNOQ; sie betreibt nicht nur das Blog sketchnotes.tech, sondern begleitet auch regelmässig Software Architektur im Stream mit […]

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