It’s almost February 2020, and I still haven’t published my end of 2019 review or shared my plans for this year. But I have good excuses for that. So far, January has been extremely busy. I already did a code review, started a new coaching project, taught an in-house workshop, recorded multiple online course lectures…
Since a lot of new applications are built as a system of microservices, dual writes have become a widespread issue. They are one of the most common reasons for data inconsistencies. To make it even worse, I had to learn that a lot of developers don’t even know what a dual write is. Dual writes…
When you start learning and using Hibernate and JPA, the number of annotations might be overwhelming. But as long as you rely on the defaults, you can implement your persistence layer using only a small subset of them. After you have mastered the basic annotations, you can take a look at additional customization options. You…
Should you expose your entities in your REST API, or should you prefer to serialize and deserialize DTO classes?That’s one of the most commonly asked questions when I’m talking to developers or when I’m coaching teams who are working on a new application. There are two main reasons for these questions and all the discussions…
Hibernate Tips is a series of posts in which I describe a quick and easy solution for common Hibernate questions. If you have a question for a future Hibernate Tip, please post a comment below. Question: “I was told that native queries remove all entities from my 2nd level cache. But you’re still recommending them….