After watching competitive StarCraft 2 last night, I kind of feel like writing a post on how playing a game can work wonders for your agile mindset. Oftentimes, when I learn, I don’t remember things ‘in their context’; for example, I don’t read IT related books. They just don’t stick. I do remember ‘similar’ things. Things that are more or less the same but in a completely different context. My wife explains it where my mind is basically working like one of those crazy detective walls, with the pictures and the strings. Read more

On my pet project, I am using protocol buffers as Interface Language (IDL). Using a simple, shared definition should speed things up, right? Well, kind of! Protocol Buffers are a message format commonly used in combination with Remote Procedure Calls (RPC; or specifically, GRPC if you’re doing RPC with protobufs). If you’re working in a microservices world, you can’t really just assume every service uses these protocol buffered messages (I’ll just call them protobufs from now on) over an RPC styled interface. Read more

A standardized library available to help developers in things like look-ups, persistence, security or messaging, has been a goal for platform creators since before even J2EE was first released. Today, we look at the latest incarnation of this goal. It’s called DAPR, and it’s made by Microsoft. Let’s go! Oh no, he didn’t Did he compare the latest hippest, fanciest, shiny technology to hit the market with the old-aged brontosaurus that is Java Enterprise? Read more

In the third part of the series, our adventure is slowly but surely heading to its climax. All ‘characters’ have been introduced. There’s DotNet Core, the new, misunderstood (or at least by me?) kid with a bunch of talent. Docker, the awesome supporting character that actually deserves his own movie. Surely there’ll be a spin-off! There’s the antagonist, Jenkins, who might end up working along with our main character more then either had hoped for. Read more

In my previous post on this topic, I somehow got the jitters to get started with .NET. Or more specifically, .NET core. Being stubborn as I am, I have created a simple delivery pipeline in Jenkins, for building and deploying a .NET core docker container. Now, this might sound like hell freezing over. Me, programming .NET? Blasphemy! Except one little thing. For my previous post, I didn’t actually write one line of C# code. Read more

At the closing of last year, I presented an in-house talk, comparing Continuous Delivery solutions for both Java and .NET. Of course, this was not a simple side-by-side comparison; a microsoft oriented colleague and myself created a small challenge for ourselves. My colleague was going to build Java software in Team Foundation Server. And me? I was stuck creating a delivery pipeline for Microsoft .NET in Jenkins. Now, I had been thinking about looking into . Read more

Greetings, dear reader, and welcome to my little corner of the web. It’s nearing the end of 2016, and I have decided I want to start my resolution of finally putting up some blogs before 2017 enters with a bang. Or, at the very least, have a welcoming blog post up and running. Minimal Viable Product and all. So, with that ,I bid you welcome to Statics Must Die, the ramblings of me, Corstijan Kortsmit. Read more