A few helpful links and details to where information is on the Gradle Build Tool. Installation Via SDKMAN sdk install gradle x.y.z where x.y.z is the version, like 8.0.2. Via Brew with brew install gradle. Manually check out the instructions here. Building a Java Library (or application, Gradle plugin, etc) Using the init task. From... Continue reading →

Yesterday we finally went full GA (Generally Available) with DataStax Astra. For the quick TLDR think of it as Apache Cassandra that you can spin up as a service and use in about a minute. I, as I wrote about some months ago, joined the engineering team to help build out the system! I quickly... Continue reading →

Recently while doing some coding on Twitch I was posed a question, “Are there any people streaming Java?” It’s an interesting question, as I’ve seen a lot of people streaming a lot of langauges. The bulk of streamers seem to be streaming JavaScript and the related frameworks and tools like React, Node.js, Vue.js, and others.... Continue reading →