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:

New personal website

Hi!

I've just changed my website so feel free to check it out :) http://www.marcin.grzejszczak.pl/

Mockito Cookbook is out!!

I'm very pleased to announce that you can order my new book Mockito Cookbook here https://www.packtpub.com/mockito-cookbook/book . I hope that you will enjoy it :)

Pre-order Mockito Cookbook!!

Hi!

I'm pleased to announce that you can already pre-order my new book Mockito Cookbook. You can buy it on Packt Publishing's website. The whole code from the book + plenty of extras are available at Github over here. Enjoy :)