Goodbye Blogspot Welcome Octopress!

I’m more than happy to announce that I’ve finally migrated from Blogspot to a decent blogging technology - Octopress! Thanks to Tomek Dziurko who was the one that suggested to choose that technology. 

That means that this the last post ever on Blogger version of this blog.

I’ve finally bought a domain for the Too Much Coding blog which is http://toomuchcoding.com.  You can also send me an email at blog (at) toomuchcoding.com.

Even though initially I had some doubts about choosing Octopress I have to admit that it seems like an awesome technology and you should definitely give it a try!

JSON Assert lib released

I'm really happy to present the JSON Assert library - over-the-weekend project that came out from the AccuREST library. This post will describe the rationale behind creating this tool and how to use it.

Post on Spring blog

Hi!

Since December I'm working for Pivotal and the Spring Cloud team. I've just posted my first blog post on the Spring blog. Check it out!

Testing Spring Cloud Projects

Business value gone wild

This blog post will not be about microservices, Spring or any technology that I've already talked about in Too much coding blog. This time it will be my opinion on two subjects

• the more and more frequent "it's not my problem" approach in the IT industry running in a corporation. 
• the "business value" frenzy of the management

This article is definitely not a motivational one. Quite frankly, you might get depressed after reading it. Nonetheless, it's better to know how really corporate life sometimes looks like rather than get hit in the face.

TL;DR : the more you care in a corporate enterprise the worse for you. Eventually some developers will hate your ideas of quality and standards because they are paid to tap the keys. Your management will fire you for not bringing "business value". The faster you embrace it, the better for you - you'll start searching for a new job sooner.

Microservice Deployment

It's been a while since my last post. In the meantime of course nothing has changed in terms of the microservice hype. I've been  attending many microservice's talks and what I'm always missing are concrete details on many different subjects. One of which is deployment. In this post I'll try to depict how in a big, multinational company one would want to do microservice deployment. I'll walk you through the most basic deployment pipeline that could be created in such an enterprise.

How to speed up your Gradle build from 90 to 8 minutes

Even though I was supposed to write a series of blog posts about micro-infra-spring here at Too Much Coding blog, today I'll write about how we've managed to decrease our biggest project's build time from 90 to 8 minutes!

Spock Subject Collaborators Extension 1.0.1 released!

Hi!

I'm really happy to say that I've just released a new version 1.0.1 of the Spock Subject Collaborators Extension.

The changelog is as follows: