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How Hibernate Almost Ruined My Career
Are you building the next big thing? Planning to become the next Facebook or Google? Are you at the point of making fundamental decisions that will stay with you for the entire project? There is a good chance that you will pick a robust language like Java. If so, you want to pick the best object-oriented abstraction of your flexible data model because you don’t want to deal with plain SQL. You want to support all kinds of data and ideally, support all kind of databases. If so, there’s only one right choice for you: Hibernate.
Freelance Software Engineer Grzegorz Gajos explores some possible scenarios where things can go wrong using Hibernate.
Grzegorz Gajos
Grzegorz is a software architect with an international consulting & programming background, & a co-founder for Open Tangerine software house
How Sequel and Sinatra Solve Ruby’s API Problem
The rise of the web and mobile applications has led to an increased need for back-end API services. Ruby on Rails’ philosophy seemingly makes it the ideal framework for creating back-end APIs. However, using Rails only for the API is overkill.
In this article, Freelance Software Engineer Boško Ivanišević explores alternatives to Rails and introduces us to two very mature and powerful gems, Sinatra and Sequel, which in combination provide powerful tools for creating server-side APIs.
Boško Ivanišević
Boško is an experienced architect/developer who is passionate about writing maintainable and readable code for both desktop and web apps.
The 10 Most Common Mistakes That WordPress Developers Make
WordPress is easily the most powerful open-source blogging and content management system available online today. As WordPress is easy enough to set up and has a user-friendly approach, many developers are often underestimating it and so make mistakes in development.
In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Andrew Schultz outlines the 10 most common mistakes that WordPress developers should be aware of for future projects.
Andrew Schultz
With an engineering degree and strong background in business analysis since 2004, Andrew’s lately focused on web development and WordPress.
The Six Commandments of Good Code: Write Code That Stands the Test of Time
How do you define good code? Is it 100% test coverage, or is it backwards compatibility with decade-old hardware? We may not be able to reach an end to this debate yet, but good software always seems to conform to a few certain qualities of code.
In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Zachary Goldberg walks us through six simple ideas that can help you make better, more maintainable software.
Zachary Goldberg
A former engineering lead at Google and Entrepreneur in Residence at Tencent, Zachary is a seasoned professional with C-level experience.
Celebrating 25 Years of Linux Kernel Development
Linux is now 25 years old, but it’s no hipster. It’s not chasing around Pokemon, and it’s not moving back in with its parents due to crippling student debt. In fact, Linux is still growing and evolving, but the core ideas of the Linux State of Mind remain the same.
In this article, Toptal Technical Editor Nermin Hajdarbegovic takes a look at the history of Linux development, the state of Linux today, and what’s next for the world’s most popular open-source operating system.
Nermin Hajdarbegovic
As a veteran tech writer, Nermin helped create online publications covering everything from the semiconductor industry to cryptocurrency.
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10 Kotlin Features to Boost Android Development
Kotlin is a new, expressive, general-purpose programming language powered by the same virtual machine technology that powers Java. Since Kotlin compiles to the JVM bytecode, it can be used side by side with Java, and it does not come with a performance overhead.
In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Ivan Kušt gives us a walkthrough of 10 major features of Kotlin that help avoid boilerplate code and, more importantly, save time.
Ivan Kušt
Ivan is a mobile enthusiast who has perfected the development process and architecture of mobile apps.
Java in the Cloud: Continuous Integration Setup Tutorial
More than two decades ago, Java shook the world with its “Write once, run anywhere“ slogan. Today, Java developers have at their disposal a whole set of tools, such as Spring Boot, Docker, Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Continuous Delivery, to take development and delivery to a whole new universe.
In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Matko Šuflaj presents all these technologies and guides us through a step-by-step tutorial on how to build a small microservice and prepare it for continuous integration in the cloud.
Matko Šuflaj
Matko is a software engineer with extensive experience in complex Java-based projects. His main focus is the Java and Spring ecosystem.
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