Introduction to SpaCy
Processing and understanding large volumes of text SpaCy is a free open-source software library, written in Python and Cython, for advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP). The company behind SpaCy is Explosion AI, a studio specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) and NLP. Their philosophy is…
2 years of Angular: lessons learned
Over the past two years, we have been working at Malmberg to build an amazing new education platform: Bingel. In this blog I like to talk about our adventures, mainly with Angular, and the lessons we learned. Bingel is a new platform for digital primary…
Welkom in de wereld van Progressive Web Apps
“An innovative new way to create applications for mobile devices” Apps die naadloos integreren in elk device. Niet te onderscheiden van ‘native apps’. Gebouwd met één technologiestack. Te installeren zónder afhankelijk te zijn van een app store. Klinkt fantastisch? Dat is het! En het is…
Introduction to Eclipse MicroProfile
Craftsmen visited the Oracle Code One, formerly known as JavaOne, Conference in San Francisco in October. Apart from the extracurricular activities like a bike ride (across the Golden Gate Bridge and around the Bay) and a visit to the Google Headquarters, there were lots of…
Docker Swarm, persistent connections and Spring Boot graceful shutdown
The problem Spring Boot containers still receiving requests after a shutdown is triggered in Docker Swarm, leading to errors. Background We have a production environment with Docker Swarm, based mainly on Spring Boot microservices. The containers communicate to each other using HTTP (with RestTemplate) through…
Traag maar toch snel
Sinds januari 2017 werk ik vanuit Craftsmen bij een van de grotere telecombedrijven van Nederland. Mijn team heeft hier onder meer de missie om de nieuwe mobiele app en website sneller en stabieler te maken. Een manier waarop we dit doen is het neerzetten van…
What is this DevOps thing, really?
After decades of separating operations and development teams, many are now shifting to what they call ‘DevOps’. But what is this DevOps thing, really? If you ask 10 people for their definition of DevOps, you’ll get 10 different answers. Some of the variations I’ve heard…
Hallo IOA, het nieuwe inningssysteem van de Belastingdienst
Vanaf begin 2016 is er binnen de afdeling invordering bij de Belastingdienst gebouwd aan een nieuw inningssysteem, genaamd Innen op Aangifte (IOA). Sinds juli 2016 werk ik vanuit Craftsmen op locatie bij de Belastingdienst en help ik mee aan de bouw van deze nieuwe applicatie….
Oracle Code One 2018 II
Daar gingen we dan. Maar liefst 14 collega’s van Craftsmen naar San Francisco om de grootste developer conferentie bij te wonen op het gebied van Java: Oracle Code One. The Conference Formerly Known As Java One. Oracle Code One is een vierdaags event, van maandag…
State your intentions
I recently came across Martin Fowler‘s post about FunctionLength. In that post he stated something about intention versus implementation. Although it might seem a very trivial thing, the impact on code readability is huge! For example, if I want to check if a book is…