Category: Software Development
AI Assisted software engineering (with the likes of GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude, Roo Code and LLM of your choice) maybe bad for innovation, I fear. Why? Because these …
Recently, I started working on a multi-persona chat application as a hobby project. You can find it here, along with complete documentation on how to set it up and …
Few days ago I was confronted with the situation that a refresh job failed. The job is supposed to run every Saturday morning at 07:00, but failed due a …
I have create a simple web application for recording short notes that I want to save for later processing. Each note consists of a timestamp and location, a label …
Can the power of GPT-4 be leveraged to build a high-performance API? In this article we will instruct GPT-4 to build a high-performance API in GoLang using Protocol Buffers …
GitHub Copilot has captured the attention of developers worldwide, promising a revolutionary shift in the way we write code. While the concept sounds enticing, many developers are left wondering, …
At the beginning of this month, at AMIS, I attended a Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting about GitHub Copilot, given by one of my colleagues. As we do so …
Op het eerste gezicht lijkt het alsof koken en softwareontwikkeling twee totaal verschillende werelden zijn. Maar laten we eens dieper graven en ontdekken of er toch verrassende overeenkomsten schuilen …
Just over three weeks ago, a colleague told me about The Advent of Code 2023. She explained how for 8 years every year in days and weeks leading up …
Platys is a tool created by Guido Schmutz, architect and data specialist at Accenture and frequent teacher at various universities. In order to be able to quickly create an …
That is a long title. In this article, I introduce a Gitpod workspace (cloud based ephemeral development environment) in which you can try out NocoDB – an open source …
Click on a button- or this link. Wait about four to five minutes. You will have access to a free cloud based environment with a three-broker-node Apache Kafka Cluster, …
Triggered by an assignment my son had to do for one of his university courses – and given the fairly light weight laptop we have him work with – …
ChatGPT is a bit of a “tongue twister” so I will speak of Cheppy. AMIS has a long history of spotting, exploring, embracing and rolling out new concepts and …
Introduction I used LastPass for several years, and it helped me a lot to access my passwords and secrets on any moment, from multiple devices, in a secure way. …
Go – sometimes Golang because internet searching for just “go” is quite impossible – is a popular programming language. It was initially launched in 2012 and as been gaining …
GitHub Copilot helped me write a Java application to process a CSV file. Not a hard task – though one that in Java always feels much harder than in …
Recently the OpenTelemetry project launched a demo application that demonstrates many aspects of instrumentation, metrics and trace gathering, providing insight across multi-service, multi-technology application stacks and in general how …
I have prepared a Gitpod wokspace definition that allows me to start a fresh development environment with the latest release of Dapr (dapr.io) installed as well as supporting containers …
A conference such as Devoxx is a great opportunity to get inspired into trying out tools and technologies that may not or only be vaguely be known as they …
End of day two. So many topics already were presented, demonstrated, discussed, tried out to and by me. This article is just a very brief overview of what caught …
This article describes how you can run your very own Oracle Database from your browser using Gitpod. With a free account (50 hours Gitpod use per month), you can …
Gitpod.io is a SaaS for software developers (that can also be used in self-hosted mode on Kubernetes). Gitpod makes workspaces available – typically based on a Git repository – …
For the Open Day we organize shortly for our family, friends, neighbours and other interested parties, my colleagues create a custom web application to support our QR Scavenger Hunt …
How hard can it be – to create the smallest possible container image to run a Go application? It is not hard to create a container image that contains …
Project Fn provides a framework for creating and running serverless functions. It is the foundation for the Functions service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Dapr.io is an open source project …
Previously I wrote about generating random data which conforms to an AVRO schema (here). In a recent use-case, I encountered the situation where there were several separate schema files …
AVRO schema are often used to serialize JSON data into a compact binary format in order to for example transport it efficiently over Kafka. When you want to validate …
Recently I was designing an AVRO schema and wanted to test how data would look like which conformed to this schema. I developed some Java code to generate sample …
It turned out to be a fairly small deal. For reference sake a brief write up of updating the Go runtime on my Ubuntu environment. Current version: go version …
I have been struggling a bit with this one: how to connect from a Go application to an Oracle Database – both a locally running database as well as …
Surely I would never be so stupid as to commit a file that contains sensitive information – say my Oracle Cloud account’s private key. And even if I did, …
I have used many open source products in my professional life. I have not studied the sources of many of these products and projects. My main contributions to the …
Vagrant can be used to quickly create development environments in for example VirtualBox, VMWare or Hyper-V. I decided to use Vagrant to create a quick Apache NiFi development environment. …
In a previous article I described how I prepared my local development environment from working with the source code of the Dapr project – locally editing, building and running …
In other articles I will write about the value of Dapr – as a personal assistant to any application that helps out with state, configuration and secrets, receiving inbound …
VS Code DevContainers allow us to easily configure and run a container with our development tech stack for the specific project or product we are working on – and …
Gists are the code snippets that you want to retain and share – with yourself and with others. Gists can be embedded in websites, blog articles and articles on …
The most popular IDE – VS Code – comes with a ton of extensions, and each can make life easier, more productive and more fun for developers. Recently I …
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers the Functions service, a FaaS offering with serverless functions, based on container images built with the Project Fn FDK. In a previous article, I introduced …
