I have started working with a small team on an exciting project at Neo4j. The project is about database connectivity (what else) and we use Testcontainers in our integration tests, asserting the actual network connectivity and eventually the API. The thing we are creating should of course also work when being compiled as part of […]
While listening to the beautiful Kahedi Radio Show, I’m having a hard time this week to put down words; I feel done for the year. Wrt music, one interesting documentary I watched last week was this: It’s about the ever increasing prices of concert tickets and about the business of Ticketmaster, Livenation and Eventim. And […]
It’s getting bleak outside but as you might have guessed, it does not stop me from getting outside. Last week I managed to increase my Veloviewer maximum square to 40×40 tiles. That is kinda of an online game connected to Strava. I am a big fan of both services. The goal with the squad is […]
I have been publishing linux-aarch64 of Neo4j-Migrations for a while now. I am unsure if there are many people using it, but one scenario is other CI/CD based on Linux ARM infrastructure in which those binaries might come in handy. Those binaries are build with GraalVM using the official setup-graalvm action from Oracle Labs. For […]
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 […]