Ever since Java 8 was introduced (and that was some time ago), it’s surprising how many code smells creep in by the incorrect use of Optional. In this article I’m going to show the most common examples of this and explain how to resolve them. To keep it simple, I will explain this without going into…
From building a Docker image on your laptop to running a containerised workload in production – what are the key challenges and considerations? Four years on from our first experiments messing around with Docker images, we now run thousands of containers in our production data centres and have just started to scale out to Google…
While progressing in my career as a frontend developer I found a variety of opportunities to learn and have an impact: some would train my analytical problem-solving skills and others can lead to new territory exploration and questions such as: how can I outline a design? Where should I start? Knowing nothing at first, I would find myself…
Problem Let’s pretend you are you, a 21st century human and I, the writer, a caveman. We have both been set a challenge as follows. You, being the smart modern human, will know this action needs a hammer. Now for myself, the caveman. I don’t know what a hammer is. I need instructions on how to recreate a hammer…
