In the summer of 2018, I joined Neo4j. This seems odd at first, my “love” for relational databases and SQL is known. I didn’t have this slide in my jOOQ presentation for two years now without reason. But: Looking at the jOOQ and SQL talks from the perspective of early 2000s, they also seemed odd […]
The Spring Framework has had an outstanding, declarative Transaction management for years now. The configurable options maybe overwhelming at first, but important to accommodate many different scenarios. Three of them stick out: propagation, isolation and to some lesser extend, read-only mode (more on that a bit later) propagation describes what happens if a transaction is […]
Some weeks ago, my friends Judith and Christian, who write great Steampunk, Fantasy and in the recent time science fiction books for whom I wrote this little Kotlin app had a good idea: We just decided to donate all sales revenues from #Shardland and #Scherbenland from June to August 2018 to Medecins Sans Frontières / […]
July 2018 marks a personal highlight of mine. Just a bit after Rabea brought the news to our very own EuregJUG, the Java Champions account send this tweet out: SUPERB! Please join us in welcoming these new Java Champions to our Community. Well done everyone@alextheedom@TheDonRaab @JonathanGiles@cero_t@jyukutyo @michaelminella @NikhilNanivade @rotnroll666@ustarahman pic.twitter.com/FIp1W6wg13 — Java Champions (@Java_Champions) July […]