The Debugging Detective: JProfiler vs. IntelliJ Profiler
JProfiler or IntelliJ Profiler? Discover which Java profiling tool excels at memory analysis, CPU bottlenecks, thread debugging, and production troubleshooting.
Author: Pieter Vercammen
TDD for readable code
How test-driven development makes your code clear and flexible In software development, it’s about writing code that doesn’t just work, but is easy to understand and adapt. Too often, code functions correctly, but as soon as changes are needed, hesitation kicks in. That’s where Test-Driven Development (TDD) comes in: a powerful technique that makes your … Continued
End-to-end tracing: gaining control over the chaos of microservices!
Your microservices architecture keeps growing, but your overview of it? Not so much. More and more communicating microservices, outdated documentation, rapidly changing teams… keeping track of everything becomes a real challenge. So, what now? OpenTelemetry!
Mowing repetitive code with an often forgotten annotation
I like code as long as it’s readable. So my resolution for the New Year, clean code. Easier said than done, and in most cases it requires a lot of preparation to end up with clean code. My priority is getting stuff to work and later on in the process I care about appearance. Functionality over beauty, right? Well, I learned it’s more efficient to do both at the same time. Recently I discovered some great tools to speed up the process for clean Java code.
The Apache Camel Experience
Inspired by the holidays it seems to be a great time for a christmas themed blogpost for all you Java-lovers out there. No Santa’s not here, but you will read about the camels on which the three wise men road to Bethlehem. Well… sort of. It’s actually about Apache Camel and it’s handy features for moving files.
Stubbing in Pyhton using Dependency injector
At one of our clients we started splitting up some monolithic applications into REST based microservices. We identified some key services we needed for our first use case which involved an aggregator service. It basically glues together three other microservices.
This is what we will explain in this blog:
How to do dependency injection using Dependency Injector
How stub these dependencies in a dynamic way (environment specific)
Our free toolkit for Full Stack Consultancy
In this post I’d like to share some tools I used to code as a full stack software developer. My shortlist only contains free to use applications as not everyone is a professional developer and can get his or her hands on licensed software. Feel free to add interesting (free) options in the comment section.
Svelte VS Sveltekit
If you landed here to find out what the difference is between `Svelte` (version 3) and `SvelteKit` (public beta version), you are in the right spot! We will shortly discuss the differences between the two and check out how `Sapper` fits in. We won’t go into too much detail nor will we compare it to other frameworks.
3 Ways to use icons in Angular
In this tutorial I will be showing you 3 ways for using icons in angular. We start with the most used one and that is Angular- Font Awesome. The second choice is working with SVG icons. I am going to show you an example with Google Fonts Icons (although Font Awesome also has that possibility). Last and not least I am going to give you a quick way to give you full access to Font Awesome without any installation or download.
How to win the AI Transformation game?
Many companies are not getting returns from AI. If they get started at all. Our simple AI Maturity Model, and some common sense, can help.
To say there is enthusiasm for AI would be a trillion dollar understatement. Over 90% of companies have AI in their 2025 strategy in some form or another. Yet for