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Monitoring Log Statements in Go

Posted on March 3, 2019 by Matthias

Good monitoring and alerting are essential for running services in production. As a Java developer, I’m a bit spoiled by my platform of choice, Spring Boot 2. Thanks to Micrometer it provides out of the box instrumentation for HTTP requests, … Continue reading →

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Resolving JARs

Posted on March 20, 2016 by Matthias

Sometimes it’s useful to check whether a local JAR file is available from Maven Central, for example when converting an old build system to Maven. In many old systems, JARs aren’t named consistently and versioning info isn’t available. Fortunately, Maven … Continue reading →

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Let’s Use TLS

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Matthias

I have followed the HTTP/2 specification process closely and I like how the new protocol improves web performance and makes old workarounds obsolete. One drawback of deploying HTTP/2 is that most browser vendors only implement it on top of TLS. Since … Continue reading →

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