Software Development: Getting Started by Getting Organized

A few weeks ago I wrote up the post on the tech I’ve decided to move forward with for my new project. This post is going to cover the collection of features, domain details (i.e. what is the use case, etc), and related project collateral. Instead of just slinging code like many of us programmers... Continue reading →

Speaking of Spring Boot Java Logging, Some Misadventures

The content discusses implementing log masking for Personally Identifying Information (PII) in Java Spring Boot applications. It covers creating custom Logback converters with regular expressions, using Log4j2 configuration with properties, and suggests additional logging strategies like AOP, custom annotations, MDC, custom Logback filters, integrating with external logging systems, JSON log format, and custom log levels... Continue reading →

DataLoader for GraphQL Implementations

A popular library used in GraphQL implementations is called DataLoader, and in many ways the name is somewhat descriptive of its purpose. As described in the JavaScript repo for the Node.js implementation for GraphQL “DataLoader is a generic utility to be used as part of your application’s data fetching layer to provide a simplified and... Continue reading →

A Hasura Quick Start with Remote Schema, Remote Joins

I’ve been building GraphQL APIs for a number of years now – of along side RESTful, gRPC, XML, and other API styles I won’t even bring up right now – and so far GraphQL APIs have been great to work with. The libraries in different languages form .NET’s Hot Chocolate, Go’s graphql-go, Apollo’s JavaScript based... Continue reading →

Gradle Build Tool

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 →