Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a practice that aims to increase both software quality and developer productivity. In a recent study, researchers found that many novice developers reject the adoption of TDD due to a lack of pleasure in certain development ...
In this article, I will demonstrate how to install Java OpenJDK 15 on macOS Catalina in 2020. Download and Install OpenJDK 15 Download the .tar.gz version of OpenJDK 15 from jdk.java.net/15/ and move the file to /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ on your mac. ...
I recently finished a course on machine learning (ML) by the Google Cloud team. In this article I want to share some key insights from this course regarding suitable use cases for machine learning in today’s businesses. While many businesses ...
I recently finished the course “Machine Learning for Business Professionals” from Google Cloud via Coursera. While the certificate normally costs about 40-50$, there is a limited time offer by Coursera where you get it for free. In this article, I ...
Traditionally, relational databases required all tables to have a fixed data schema, i.e. a set of attributes (such as a “user” table with attributes “firstName”, “lastName” and “email”). You could change the schema by adding and removing attributes, but the ...
This tutorial is about how to highlight the currently active page in your navigation with Thymeleaf and Spring Boot. Highlighting the active page is a known usability pattern and should help users to find their way around your web application. ...
Running regular background tasks on a network-attached storage (NAS) is an essential use case for backups, monitoring and more. With Synology DiskStations, there is an easy GUI-based approach to configure such tasks which still allows you to execute custom scripts. ...
In a blue-green deployment strategy, there are always two instances of your application running in production. A reverse proxy is used to direct traffic to either the green or the blue version. You then deploy changes to your application by ...
Sometimes I want to quickly save some code changes that I am not ready to commit into a real branch. For example, I might be in the middle of a long refactoring and there is a complete mess that I ...
Zabbix is a great open source tool to monitor operating system and application metrics. You can install it on your web server and out of the box, it is able to show you fancy graphs for things like: Memory availability ...