Do you think you’re a senior developer? Here are the traits you should have — You don’t like a senior with only several YOE. You know tenure doesn’t make a good senior. Work years mean nothing. We all forget things. Forgetting things renders years of experience obsolete. And with new developments and a lack of time to keep up, this makes YOE even more pointless. …

How to configure nginx as a reverse proxy for keycloak — You can hit various issues while setting up Keycloak behind a reverse proxy. Some of these are: Could not open Admin login page because mixed content Infinite spinner while opening admin page KC_HOSTNAME_ADMIN doesn’t work And these are just a few issues you may encounter. Most of these are hard…

5 Odoo issues I’ve encountered while implementing SSO — How to implement Odoo SSO with Google AD? I’ve worked on SSO previously but wanted to challenge myself with this problem. Odoo is an open-source ERP, extensible, and has a vibrant community. That’s why small business pick this ERP for their business. Even so, SSO in Odoo can be somewhat…

How will we use this and super constructor in future Java versions? — Most developers neglect the fact that a super constructor or this constructor is added implicitly. This trait makes Java go around, as it satisfies the top-down instantiation. But there are some occasions where we’d like to intervene. But we’d like to gain control before these rigid constructors. …

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…