Mike Kowalski

Software engineer & consultant believing in craftsmanship and the power of fresh espresso. Writing in & about Java, distributed systems, and beyond. Mikes his own opinions and bytes.

37 posts
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Poznań, Poland

Squashing DB migrations using Testcontainers

2 months ago • 7 min read

Gazing into a crystal ball - my predictions for 2023

3 months ago • 6 min read

What happens when you only limit the maximum heap size?

4 months ago • 11 min read

JSON, Kafka, and the need for schema

9 months ago • 9 min read

The API should guide you

a year ago • 5 min read

Java records & compact constructors

a year ago • 4 min read

Go-live is a test of flexibility

a year ago • 5 min read

Pragmatic tests parallelization with JUnit 5

a year ago • 8 min read

Parameterize like a pro with JUnit 5 @CsvSource

a year ago • 5 min read

No need to hate Java default methods

2 years ago • 6 min read