Nicolas Frankel

Dev Advocate | Former developer | Former architect | Former teacher | Still learning and blogging.

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Nicolas Frankel

Aug 8

Rust's Vector

#rust #beginners #basics #collection

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Rust's Vector

I nope your nope. I don't know C++ 🤷‍♂️

Aug 13

Why you should use Multi Stage Docker Builds

Yes, you should do multi-stage builds. Yes, size does matter...

Aug 7

Redirecting GitHub Pages

Don't reinvent the wheel: check the JekyllRedirectFrom plugin...

Aug 4

New adventures as DevRel 🤓

Congrats!

Jul 31

Why I'm Not One of the Guys

It's quite a dishonest approach. It's like if I said that us...

Jul 30

Why I'm Not One of the Guys

Your reasoning is wrong on so many levels... but at least I'l...

Jul 30

diceroller, a sample Rust project

Thanks for your feedback. I've fixed the syntax.

Jul 26

Smart Pointers in Rust: What, why and how?

I'm learning Rust. Those are very good pointers!

Jul 20

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Nicolas Frankel

Aug 1

GitLab as your Continuous Deployment one-stop shop

#devops #gitlab #continuousdeployment #docker

4 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Jul 25

diceroller, a sample Rust project

#beginners #rust #rpg #randomness

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9 min read

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Jul 18

Rust and the JVM

#rust #beginners #java #jni

6 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Jul 11

A Rust controller for Kubernetes

#beginners #rust #kubernetes #learning

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8 min read

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Jul 4

Rust on the front-end

#rust #beginners #webassembly #webdev

7 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Jun 27

The Rustlings exercises - part 2

#rust #beginners #learning #practice

3 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Jun 20

BlockHound: how it works

#reactiveprogramming #java #blockhound

5 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Jun 13

The Rustlings exercises - part 1

#rust #beginners #learning #practice

5 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Jun 6

My second cup of Rust

#rust #beginners #learning

6 min read

Nicolas Frankel

May 30

My first cup of Rust

#rust #beginners #learning

12 min read

Nicolas Frankel

May 23

Hacking third-party APIs on the JVM

#java #hack #api

8 min read

Nicolas Frankel

May 16

Timely computation of derived values

#algorithms #performance #computation #cache

2 min read

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May 13

Querying Your In-Memory-Data-Grid: Why and How?

#sql #cache #inmemorydatagrid #query

8 min read

Nicolas Frankel

May 9

Teeing, a hidden gem in the Java API

#java #stream #api #teeing

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3 min read

Nicolas Frankel

May 2

A real-world example of a Stream Collector

#java #stream #functional #api

4 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Apr 25

An example of overengineering - keep it WET

#overengineering #goodpractice #wet #dry

2 min read

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Apr 18

A look at Kotlin's delegation

#kotlin #delegation #pattern

4 min read

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for Hazelcast

Apr 16

Hazelcast, from Embedded to Client-Server

#java #architecture #deployment #polyglot

8 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Apr 11

Your own custom Spring Data repository

#java #springdata #springboot #customization

6 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Apr 4

Changing a field's type in recent JDKs

#java #security #hack #jvm

5 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Mar 28

A (definitive?) guide on LazyInitializationException

#java #hibernate #jpa #persistence

9 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Mar 21

Kicking Spring Native's tires

#kotlin #graalvm #nativeimage #springframework

9 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Mar 14

Backpressure in Reactive Systems

#java #kotlin #reactive #backpressure

5 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Mar 7

Goodbye minikube

#devops #kuberenetes #kind #minikube

3 min read

Nicolas Frankel

for Hazelcast

Mar 4

Beyond "Hello World": Zero-Downtime Deployments on Kubernetes

#database #session #devops #kubernetes

10 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Feb 28

Monitoring across frameworks

#java #monitoring #springboot #devops

5 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Feb 21

Optional.stream()

#java #api #optional #functional

2 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Feb 14

Distribution of JVM desktop applications

#java #gui #desktop #openwebstart

7 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Feb 7

The state of JVM desktop frameworks: Jetpack Compose for Desktop

#gui #kotlin #jetpackcompose #desktop

6 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Jan 31

The state of JVM desktop frameworks: TornadoFX

5 min read

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Jan 24

The state of JVM desktop frameworks: SWT

#kotlin #swt #gui #desktop

4 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Jan 17

The state of JVM desktop frameworks: Swing

#kotlin #swing #gui #desktop

8 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Jan 10

Creating self-contained executable JARs

#java #jar #maven #springboot

8 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Jan 3

The state of JVM desktop frameworks: introduction

#gui #java #swing #swt

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7 min read

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Dec 27 '20

Musings around a Dockerfile for Jekyll

#docker #jekyll #ruby

9 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Dec 20 '20

Feedback on the Log4J2 hack in Spring Boot

#feedback #java #springboot #logging

3 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Dec 13 '20

A dirty hack to ease the usage of Log4J2 in Spring Boot

#java #maven #hack #logging

4 min read

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for Hazelcast

Dec 8 '20

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Caching Patterns

#designpattern #architecture #caching #beginners

5 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Dec 6 '20

Event Streams in Action

#streamprocessing #eventdriven #architecture #books

3 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Nov 29 '20

(Finally) solving a substitution GraalVM issue

#graalvm #nativeimage #java #cloudnative

5 min read

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for Hazelcast

Nov 24 '20

Announcing the Hazelcast Heroes Program

#opensource #community #hazelcast

1 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Nov 22 '20

Most commonly available JDKs

#java #jdk

5 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Nov 15 '20

From Spring Boot to Quarkus

#kotlin #springboot #quarkus #cloudnative

3 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Nov 8 '20

From Spring Boot to Micronaut

#springboot #micronaut #migration #kotlin

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Nov 1 '20

From Reactor to Coroutines

#kotlin #reactiveprogramming #coroutines #projectreactor

4 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Oct 25 '20

Update on the state of Java modularization

#java #jpms #modularization #jigsaw

7 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Oct 18 '20

Do's and don'ts for conference organizers, a speaker's point-of-view

#conference #publicspeaking

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7 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Oct 11 '20

A Hitchhiker's Guide to Containerizing (Spring Boot) Java Apps

#docker #container #java #springboot

10 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Oct 4 '20

On learning a new programming language

#programminglanguage #learning

5 min read

Nicolas Frankel

for Hazelcast

Oct 1 '20

Hazelcast joins Hacktoberfest 2020!

#hacktoberfest #contributorswanted

2 min read

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Sep 29 '20

Migrating from Imperative to Reactive

#reactiveprogramming #springboot #caching #reactivestreams

11 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Sep 27 '20

In defense of XML

#xml #json #yaml #dataexchange

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7 min read

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for Hazelcast

Sep 25 '20

Google Summer of Code 2020: A Mentor's Perspective

#googlesummerofcode #opensource #mentorship

5 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Sep 20 '20

Customizing your GitHub profile - Building

#actionshackathon #ci #buildautomation #github

6 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Sep 13 '20

Customizing your GitHub profile - Scripting

#github #kotlin #kotlinscripting #freemarker

8 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Sep 6 '20

On house building and software development projects

#softwaredevelopment #fixedprice #timeandmaterials #buildorbuy

4 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Aug 30 '20

GitHub Actions and Maven releases

#actionshackathon #maven #ci #releasemanagement

6 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Aug 23 '20

Handcrafting your own SVG

#svg #design #lessonslearned

5 min read

Nicolas Frankel

Aug 16 '20

Date and time gotchas

#date #time #timezone #iana

6 min read

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Rust's Vector

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New adventures as DevRel 🤓

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Why I'm Not One of the Guys

diceroller, a sample Rust project

Smart Pointers in Rust: What, why and how?