How to tell better user stories and move away from tech stories — You don’t write user stories. You write tech stories. Most of us try to iterate faster. And most developers neglect user stories. After all, user stories are tools for micromanagement. Jokes aside, we can improve this artifact to help us in the future. How to move away from pointless tech…

#4 Too good to be true — Experienced developers pick wisely before joining a company. Most know traits they don’t like to see in a software company. No experienced developer likes to join a company and quit a few days after. This can smear a CV, but also show a lack of integrity. Juniors join companies based…

Contrary to popular belief, a lack of job hops may lead to a worst developer experience — Most CEOs dislike job hoppers. “Job hops make you a less valuable developer!” — they say. If you’re an experienced developer and have short tenures that could be a problem. Even so, experienced developers job hop. The truth: job hops won’t affect your career negatively. But why should you job…

How to generate client assertion from SSL certificate with Spring Boot — Most developers know how to authenticate their confidential web clients with client_secret. But what’s the process of certificate client authentication? How do we authenticate the client with a certificate instead of a client secret in Spring Boot? Spring Boot has support for client secrets and it’s easy to configure. First…

Do you need to configure the Spring Boot app to work with multiple data sources? Most solutions to this SO question have @Primary to mark the primary data source. This isn't what we need, as we want to have equal multiple databases. What if you don’t want to have a…

How to prepare Keycloak for deployment on your local — You work with Keycloak and want to configure the server with Terraform. Most of the local configuration can be done in JSON, but deployment-wise terraform files are defacto standard. Also, you don’t want ping-pong with DevOps folks. And this can prolong the deployment of the Keycloak change. So you’ll need…

And answers one should expect — Inexperienced developers don’t get to pick the work. Experienced ones have plenty of offers. And they should be picky about their next job. Experienced developers should be cautious when job hopping. You could end up in the worse company. Or end up in a waterfall company. That’s why they ask…

How job hops benefit you as a developer — Most developers job hop and get better deals. Why is job hopping good for you? When should you switch jobs? What if you are satisfied with your current gig? All these questions bug even experienced developers. Some worry short tenure could be a red flag for future recruiters. Let’s dive…

Here are 5 recruiter’s actions developers dislike — Do you get recruiter’s offers daily? You’re not alone. And there’s nothing wrong there. But there are some things developers hate. And recruiters do them regardless. Here’s what developers hate about recruiters. 1. Spamming with offers We don’t want to reply to unsolicited messages. Also, most of these messages are copy&paste DMs. You’ll probably…