const and let (instead of var)

WHAT IS CI/CD?

• ECS: Elastic Container Service
  • Is a logical grouping of EC2 machines/instances
  • Is a mere configuration for an efficient use and management of your EC2 instances resources
  • Uses Docker to instantiate containers/instances/virtual machines on these (EC2) hosts
  • To add/register EC2 instances –> all you need is Amazon ECS Container Agent running on your EC2 instance/machine

  Amazon ECS Container Agent

  • The container agent running on each instance within an Amazon ECS cluster sends information about the instance’s current running tasks and resource utilization to Amazon ECS
  • It can start and stop tasks whenever it receives a request from Amazon ECS

So yesterday, I got to attend a developer conference sponsored by MYOB called VoxxedDay. It was the first time it ran in Melbourne. I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it and was left feeling very inspired and motivated to continue learning and bettering my craft.

Below is a summary of the main concepts to consider when using exceptions in Java as discussed in Chapter 10 of the Effective Java book (Third Edition) by Joshua Bloch.

Java 8 introduced a new functional feature which is the Lambda expression. Read on to learn more about what it is and how it works.

If you are trying to decide what kind of database to pick for your project, the following principles and theorems would be beneficial to help you make that decision.

So now that you’ve got your SpringBoot application set up, and you want to be able to interact with your relational database of choice, how would you go about that? This is where JDBC, JPA and Hibernate come in.

• SQL stands for Structured Query Language
• It is used to communicate with a database

So what is the deal with the new Java 8 feature Stream?

This is an introductory blog to Exception Handling in Java. If you are new to exceptions or just want to refresh on some core concepts, then please continue reading!

Last week, we got the chance to experience our first ever code retreat as a group with Mark Pearl and Elliott Wanless. It was a great learning exercise and I look forward to doing it again in the near future.

Being introduced to the world of Test Driven Develoment has been a big eye-opening experience for me. I decided to redesign and re-code my solution to the MYOB Challenge using the TDD approach to allow myself the chance to implement TDD and see how it works in a project.

It’s been a great immersion and learning experience in the first two weeks at MYOB as a graduate developer.