Java 9 is a major release, which brings highly anticipated modularization.

From the start of my career, I have preferred Spock for writing tests. While working with legacy systems I have written few JUnit tests here and there. But my knowledge JUnit, Hamcrest, and Mockito is fairly limited.

In this tutorial, I’ll show how to setup REST web service using Jersey on embedded Jetty server. For build tool, I’ll be using Gradle. Also, we will package up this application as FatJar, single executable Jar for easy deployment.

Static site generators are really good for blogging sites. You generate site once and you simply serve generated HTML files using HTTP server.

XFS is a fairly popular file system on Linux.

In relational database systems, we store large amounts of data. Ability to find biggest tables in a database is quite useful when you are searching where your precious disk space is being used.

Most of the IDE’s give you hints, that you could replace lambdas with method references. But there is a subtle difference between them.

I always planned to run my own tech blog. It’s funny how long it took me to get started.