Last week I came across a Twitter thread about using stored procedures or in other words, user defined functions in databases. Every myth about them has already been debunked like 13 years ago in this excellent post: Mythbusters: Stored Procedures Edition. I can completely get behind it, but also like some personal thoughts and share […]
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 […]
The following post is more a less a dump of code. Since version 5.8 the official Neo4j drivers supports expiration of authentication tokens (see Introduce AuthToken rotation and session auth support. The PR states: “The feature might also be referred to as a refresh or re-auth. In practice, it allows replacing the current token with […]
After a long time of blog hiatus, I was in the mood of trying out one of these “The best way to XYZ” posts for once. While Spring Boot 3 and Spring Framework 6 releases have focused a lot on revamping the application context and annotation processing for GraalVM native image compatibility (and “boring” tasks […]
Markus Winand has blogged about tool support for keyset pagination nearly a decade ago and of course my friend Lukas Eder has picked up that topic and did not only blog about it several times but implemented tool support with the the synthetic seek-clause of jOOQ. As the seek clause in jOOQ is excellent for […]