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Recently, I wanted to rewrite a JUnit integration test for my Spring Boot application. Since it was an integration test, I used Testcontainers to start a database. While there are Kotest extensions for Spring and Testcontainers we have the problem th...
I am happy to tell you all about an upcoming Kotest feature that will be in one of the future versions (hopefully the next one ;) ) of Kotest: YAML matchers What makes those matchers special for me is that they are my first contribution to the Kotest...
1. Introduction Beginning in December, I had the chance to participate in a Bertelsmann scholarship. I was allowed to start the Udacity nanodegree "AI Programming with Python" for free. Last month, I finished the nanodegree successfully, and therefor...
I recently had to work with Kafka Streams for the first time and, as usual, when encountering a new technology, made some mistakes. I want to share the learnings from working the first time with Kafka Streams with you. Without getting too much into d...
Introduction This year was the first one in which I participated in Advent of Code (AoC). I am not sure why I haven't noticed it before. Maybe I was not interested, since coding competitions are not related to my daily work. Additionally, competition...
Things that don't work (Annotation magic)
Introduction Today, I want to present to you the book "Effective Kotlin" by Marcin Moskala. A friend and former colleague of mine recommended it to me (thank you Patrick). I must admit that I was skeptical after looking at the book before ordering it...
Reactive to blocking
Fully reactive
