Description: Sling Models: From Scriptlets to POJOs: Apache Sling from a practitioner’s perspective with timeless lessons. A quick chat in the team room Me: Why is there Java in this JSP that looks like spaghetti? Teammate: It started small. A getter here, a null check there. Then a deadline hit….
Year: 2014
XWiki for Teams: Documentation that Breathes
XWiki for teams that want documentation that breathes Your team has docs in Google Drive, a few Word files stuffed in email, and a dusty old wiki that nobody trusts. People ask the same questions every sprint. New hires ping the lead for the same setup steps. You try to…
Graph Thinking with Neo4j: When Relationships Matter
Your data is not just rows and columns. It is people, clicks, events and choices bumping into each other.When those bumps carry meaning, a graph database like Neo4j starts to feel less like a trend and more like the right tool. Graph thinking beats table thinking when relationships carry the…
Analytics for Product Teams: Questions before Dashboards
Dashboards are sugar. They taste good at standup and give you a rush in front of the team. Then the crash hits and the questions return. If you build products, the win is not a pretty chart. The win is knowing which question matters right now and making the screen…
CI for Performance Tests: Treating Speed as a Feature
\n We shipped on a Friday night. Big promo. Fresh build. Buzzing chat room. Traffic started to roll in and then everything felt like wading through cold syrup. Spinners everywhere. Our APM graphs drew a perfect ski slope. Engineers scrambled, product looked worried, and the chat turned quiet. The code…