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Hi I’m Mark, a Software Engineer from Belfast and Head of Support in the Brown house, duties mainly involve turning it off and on again.
Splitting tests using JUnit Tags
Grouping together tests can help you to parallelize your integration tests and make your build times faster.
TIL - Comparing Strings with trailing spaces using TSQL
I set off down this path of enlightenment as I investigated a customer issue that “could never happen”.
Automate away your N+1 problems with Hibernate Statistics
If you are using an ORM in your projects, The N+1 query problem is definitely one of your issues. If you don't know that yet - well, may the Lord have mercy on your soul.
Introduction to Indexes, and the Primary Key
Database indexing is a development task. The most important information for indexing is not the storage system, or the configuration of the server - but instead how the application queries the data. This knowledge is not easily obtained from DBAs or external consultants - so it's on us, the developers.
Fixing the N+1 query problem
In an earlier blog post, I touched upon the cardinal sin of performance issues - N+1 queries. In this blog post I am going to explain through a few examples what the N+1 query problem is, and also suggest how to fix each in your application code.
Why (and how) I moved to GatsbyJS
Honestly - the main reason I chose to move away from Wordpress and to GatsbyJS wasn't to upskill in the No. 2 Web Framework from 2020 (according to stackoverflow - but just because.. I liked it better.