Author Archives: Michael Simons

Neo4j, Java and GraphQL

13-Jul-21

Recently, I realized I am an old person: Back in 2004, @tinasimons met an "elder" couple at Rock am Ring, who had some quite delicious food with them. They had been equiped totally different than us. We liked them but found them kinda funny. 17 years later I realize: Today we would be that couple. […]

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Synchronizing Neo4j causal cluster bookmarks

12-Jul-21

Neo4j cluster is available in the Neo4j enterprise version and of course in Neo4j Aura. A cluster provides causal consistency via the concept of bookmarks: On executing a transaction, the client can ask for a bookmark which it then presents as a parameter to subsequent transactions. Using that bookmark the cluster can ensure that only […]

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What if Metallica went into Java programming?

27-May-21

Yesterday, Maciej shared this and I answered Disposable. — Michael Simons (@rotnroll666) May 26, 2021 after that, things escalated a bit… 🙂 While I thought, if Metallica would have been Spring developers, they would have written about Disposable Beans, not Heroes, other people have been more creative: From Gerald came songs about memory leaks or […]

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Releasing Maven based projects to Maven central

05-Feb-21

I published my first library on Maven central about 2013. A server side embedding tool for webpages based on OEmbed. I remember how happy and proud I was having published something in binary form “for all eternity”. Maven central is the canonical, default artifact repository for the built tool of the same name, Apache Maven. […]

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Do some puzzles sometimes

03-Feb-21

Wait, I here you say “This guy writing there, didn’t he write about not having time and energy for site projects?”: Honestly, I admire all the folks in my IT bubble starting and finishing new side projects. How do you do it these days? I have a hard time already distinguishing Blursday 1…5 and the […]

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