I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time working on a Go project called Deckard. It’s a command line interface (or CLI) for handling database schema changes. Recently, I found myself wanting to prompt the user for a rune before running a command in that CLI. Why would I do this? Deckard handles schema […]
Classic database/schema migration patterns are a nightmare for modern systems. As Software Engineers push for a more distributed ecosystem, one is tempted to ask: “Why should the code that manages one system, live with the application code of another system?” “But Brad, this is really convenient”. I agree that it is really convenient when you’re […]
I recently was running into an issue where a Systemd service was crashing due to an out of memory error. I was pretty sure that my project wasn’t taking up too much memory, but I wasn’t certain what was. Thankfully, with the use of some command-line wizardry, I was able to find out that Hyper […]
A Gradle scan is a build scan that provides insights into how your build ran and why it did what it did. Once you’ve generated a scan, you can share that with other members of your team (or anyone who may help diagnose issues) via a URL. Here’s a sample scan! Creating a Gradle Scan […]
Sentry is an error tracking service that helps you quickly track errors in many environments. While it’s not the only option for error reporting (Rollbar comes to mind since they sponsor most of the podcasts I listen to), Sentry is my favorite option. Today, we’re going to setup Sentry reporting for our Scala / Play […]
Traits are a pattern introduced in Scala (at least, this was my first introduction to them) that help avoid deep class hierarchies in favor of composition. If you don’t have Scala experience, but do have Java experience, you can treat this similarly to Java 8 Interfaces. However, I still prefer to call them Traits. Although […]
Burnout happens — especially developer burnout. It’s unfortunate, but a fact of life. However, it seems to happen to developers (and maybe Doctors, but you’re not my target audience) far more often then other professions. It may manifest in the emotion of dread, knowing you have to go in to work tomorrow. Or it may […]