It's time to apply KISS principle to career

It's time to apply KISS principle to career

You might have heard from IT employees that there is no work-life balance in IT due to unrealistic deadlines, long working hours, etc. I did work crazy hours in the first 7 or 8 years of my career, but not anymore. Fortunately, I have been working in the companies that value work-life balance, and I never had to work beyond 8 hours in the recent past.

Go for Java/SpringBoot Developers

Go for Java/SpringBoot Developers

I have been using Java for more than 17 years, and I really like Java and its ecosystem. Within the Java ecosystem, Spring Boot is my go-to framework for building applications.

I used the Go language for an official project a couple of years ago, and initially I had mixed feelings about it. But the more I use it, the more I like it.

My First Year at AtomicJar as a Developer Advocate

My First Year at AtomicJar as a Developer Advocate

I joined AtomicJar as a Developer Advocate on 1st November 2022. Time flies when you are enjoying your work, doesn’t it?

Before joining AtomicJar, I worked as a TechLead/Architect at various companies for more than 15 years. When I got the opportunity to join AtomicJar, I was very excited to work with my favourite technology Testcontainers. I have been using Testcontainers for more than 4 years, and I am a big fan of it.

Spring Boot + jOOQ Tutorial - 1 : Getting Started

Spring Boot + jOOQ Tutorial - 1 : Getting Started

jOOQ is a Java persistence library that provides SQL DSL for writing typesafe SQL queries. It supports most of the popular databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and many more. In this tutorial, we will learn how to get started with jOOQ for implementing persistence layer in a Spring Boot application. You can also use jOOQ in other JVM based languages like Kotlin, Scala, etc.