Liberating Structures Meetup
How do you get the desired results in meetings? What are the ingredients for good discussions? Is it possible to let everyone actively contribute in meetings? These were some of …
DDD and the Anemic Domain Model
Every month we get together with the team to work on new technology or just occupy ourselves with tech related topics in general. In order to come up with topics …
App development with Flutter
At least once month we come together for a full day at Sourcelabs to spend time together learning new things. For last Fridays edition, we planned looking into Flutter and …
Mob Programming with TypeScript and Angular
Every last Friday of the month we organize an internal Sourcelabs meetup. Main goal of our meetups is to gain new knowledge, share insights, get some hands-on experience with relevant …
Testing Microservices with WireMock
In this series we will look at how WireMock can help the development and testing of Microservices. The first part will focus on a standalone setup to understand what WireMock …
Compiler Hinting with Kotlin Contracts
Kotlin’s built-in null-safety makes it easy for us to write code that’s less error-prone and less susceptible to the unwanted and unexpected NullpointerException at runtime. We can do a lot to make …
Going functional and fullstack with Spring Fu and Kotlin
Spring Fu is an experimental Kotlin micro-framework that makes it easy to create lightweight Spring-powered applications with functional APIs instead of annotations. Fu is for functional API, but that’s also …
Consumer Driven Contracts
Microservice integration Organizations that move towards microservices, experience new issues that come with this way of working. Imagine it’s the last day of the sprint and you spot a really …
Java 10: Local Variable Type Inference
With Java 10 a new feature was introduced to the language: local variable type inference. In this short post, I am going to take a closer look at what this …
Optional Kotlin
Last week I was working on a code base which had been partially converted from Java to Kotlin. The converted Java code base was making extensive use of java.util.Optional. The …