Videos

Sept. 23, 2023

Ep 10: Everything Spring Framework (with Dan Vega)

Dan Vega is a Spring Developer Advocate at VMware Tanzu. Dan is also a prolific YouTube content creator, course creator, and has spoken in several conferences. He also hosts the Spring Office Hours show and podcast weekly. In this episode, I talk to Dan about his journey to being a…

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Aug. 27, 2023

Ep 9: Testing architecture with ArchUnit (with Roland Weisleder)

Roland's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roland-weisleder/ Devoxx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef0lUToWxI8 I happened to see a Devoxx talk a month ago, which was titled Unit Test, your Java Architecture by Roland Weisleder. And I found that to be super interesting because unit testing is something that I've always attributed to code, something more objective.…

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Jan. 8, 2023

Ep 8: Event driven architectures (with Jonathan Schabowsky)

Links: Get a Solace Cloud account: https://console.solace.cloud/login/new-account Spring Cloud Stream code lab: https://codelabs.solace.dev/codelabs/spring-cloud-stream-basics Jonathan's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-schabowsky Event driven microservices are gaining a lot of traction these days due to their ability to decouple different systems while at the same time, keep interactions realtime and dynamic. In this episode of…

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May 22, 2022

Ep 7: The job search process (with Madeline Mann)

Madeline's website: http://madelinemann.com Self Made Millenial YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SelfMadeMillennial In this episode of The Artifact, I talk to Madeline Mann, who is a career and job search coach. She is the creator of the Self Made Millenial. She has a coaching program and a Youtube channel with some amazing content…

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April 9, 2022

Ep 6: Microservices and patterns (with Chris Richardson)

Microservice patterns website: http://microservices.io Chris' consulting website: http://chrisrichardson.net It's really simple. When you think microservice patterns, you think Chris Richardson. Chris is a very popular and authoritative voice in the microservice space - he runs the website microservices.io which is a go to resource for anyone trying to architect microservices…

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March 26, 2022

Ep 5: Java dev productivity report, Java 18, Google cloud pricing and other news

JDK 18 is released, there's controversy over Google Cloud's price increase, a new look for MDN, a mysterious npm package that does nothing but has over 700 thousand downloads. And a walk through of the Java developer productivity report from JRebel. All this and more in this episode of the…

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March 5, 2022

Ep 3: Multicloud vs polycloud, Jakarta EE and other news

Jakarta EE 10 is coming up. GitHub codespaces is becoming fast, like really fast! Dynamo DB turns 10. There is a library that I recommend for faking data. And what the heck is the difference between multicloud and poly cloud? Welcome to episode three of the artifact. This is a…

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Feb. 24, 2022

Ep 2 - Learning cloud technologies (with Ranga Karanam)

Getting started in the software industry as a backend Java developer used to be about learning a programming language and a couple of frameworks to build applications. And you were all set. These days, it's no longer the case. With the rise of DevOps, and more importantly, the cloud, the…

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Jan. 30, 2022

Ep 4: On becoming a software architect (with Lee Atchison)

Lee's website: https://leeatchison.com LinkedIn Learning course (Software Architecture: From Developer to Architect Online Class): https://www.linkedin.com/learning/software-architecture-from-developer-to-architect There's a point in every software engineers career, where they think "What's next?" Do they consider the role of an architect? Do they make a switch to a managerial role? Or deep dive into an…

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