I wanted to do a little sample application in Kotlin. I’m getting tired of using JPA for all the things, so I decided to try out MyBatis. I had used MyBatis with great success years ago, .. READ MORE

MongoDB does something interesting that we aren’t used to in the Java world – if you use the MongoClient object, it manages the pooling for you on the server side. This is different than how .. READ MORE

When you’re working with REST services, it can be very useful for debugging to be able to log both the request and the response info. Fortunately, if you’re using the Spring framework’s RestTemplate its fairly .. READ MORE