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My conversation with ChatGPT on trade data structures

March 19, 2023 stephennimmo Coding

I recently had a conversation with ChatGPT about helping me build some protobuf-based commodities trade structures. It was pretty amazing[…]

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Building a Comprehensive Functional Testing Strategy

January 13, 2023 stephennimmo Culture, System Design

Software testing is important. Unit tests are important. However, there are so many different layers and scopes of testing software[…]

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Microservices and the Foreign Key Dilemma

January 6, 2023 stephennimmo System Design

The journey to microservices is focused on breaking down monolithic applications into compose, domain driven services. There are many valuable[…]

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Kafka Stream Transformation Patterns and Message Reprocessing

December 23, 2022 stephennimmo System Design

This blog post assumes you have at least a basic understanding of Kafka – topics, partitioning, offsets. If you have[…]

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Why Continuous Delivery?

December 19, 2022 stephennimmo Culture

The need for continuous delivery is predicated on the fact that software is continuously deteriorating. From the second the code[…]

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Using Podman with Quarkus and Testcontainers on MacOS M1

October 19, 2022 stephennimmo Configuration

Switching to use Podman instead of Docker for spinning up Testcontainers on MacOS just takes a bit of install and[…]

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NFS PVC Dynamic Provisioning on OpenShift

May 12, 2022 stephennimmo Configuration

Setting Up the NFS Server I run a RHEL box which provides all the supporting services needed for my POCs[…]

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Using Lombok and MapStruct in a Maven Project

January 4, 2022 stephennimmo Coding

Lombok is a java library providing annotations for boilerplate generation. It will handle getters, setters, toStrings, hashCodes, equals, constructors, builders[…]

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Let’s Encrypt Certificate Management on OpenShift using cert-manager Operator

November 22, 2021 stephennimmo Configuration

I love me some Let’s Encrypt. This nonprofit certificate authority brought a no-nonsense set of tools and practices to managing[…]

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The avro-maven-plugin configuration doesn’t work in the execution definition

November 2, 2021 stephennimmo Coding

I wanted to write a quick blog because I’ve wasted a full hour figuring out why the imports on the[…]

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