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Why you should use Lombok

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Jacob van Lingen

It’s the year 2023. JDriven colleagues have gathered to discuss the new trends and deprecations of our work to put on the latest TechRadar. Once everybody is seated, everyone contributes their latest opinions. Very soon discussions run high. Lombok is dropped at the table of discussion as well. After some debate, it is decided. Lombok is put on HOLD!

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Mastering Maven: Disable Logging Of Progress Downloading Artifacts

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Hubert Klein Ikkink

When Maven needs to download artifacts from a remote repository, it logs the progress of the download. This can lead to a lot of noise in the output. Luckily, we can suppress the logging of the download progress. Since Maven 3.6.1. we can use the command-line option --no-transfer-progress to disable the logging of the download progress. There is also a short version of the option: -ntp.

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Helidon SE Helpings: Default Configuration Sources During Testing

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Hubert Klein Ikkink

In a previous blog post we learned about the default input sources that are used by Helidon SE. The list of input sources is different based on which artifacts are on the classpath of our application. When we write tests for code in our application that uses the default configuration created by Config.create() we must take into account that different input sources are used. Also here it is based on the artifacts that are on the classpath. That means that different files with configuration data are loaded, eg. a file application-test.conf when we have the artifact helidon-config-hocon and a file application-test.yml if the artifact helidon-config-yaml is on the classpath.

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Wat wil je worden als je later groot bent?

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Juliëtte Veldhuis

Blogtober, een jaarlijks terugkerend initiatief waarin onze collega’s elke (werk)dag in oktober (veelal technische) blogs delen! Echt iets voor onze developers, mensen vanuit de inhoud, die hun kennis op deze manier met de wereld delen. Tot vorige week mijn collega Erik Pronk als ‘geintje met een seintje’ liet vallen dat hij nog wacht op een blog van mij. Mijn eerste gedachte: grappig, niks voor mij. Mijn tweede gedachte: challenge accepted!

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GKE with terraform and helm

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Dimitris Androutsos

In this tutorial we will deploy a Spring Boot applications to GKE. The application connects to a cloud Postgres database and exposes some REST endpoints. The required infrastructure is created with Terraform and the code is deployed to GKE with Helm. Helm is also deployed by Terraform.

  1. Java 17 installed

  2. Maven installed

  3. Docker installed

  4. gcloud installed

  5. A GC project setup with the billing configured

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Data Exfiltration via Git: A Forensic Investigation. Part 1, Exfiltration

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Menno van Veenendaal

In this two-part blog post, we’ll explore how data exfiltration to GitHub can be carried out from a Windows 10 workstation and how to investigate such incidents. Part 1 focuses on how data can be exfiltrated using Git and GitHub. In Part 2, we’ll dive into forensic techniques to retrieve evidence of data exfiltration and determine what was sent from the workstation.

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GitOps: DevOps 2.0

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Thomas de Groot

Misclicked and stumbled on this blog? I can relate, every time using the UI of a cloud provider I’m always nervous I make errors in configuring my resources. In answer to this DevOps is embracing GitOps, DevOps taking development best practices and applying them to infrastructure automation.

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