60 years of COBOL – past, present, and future
Imagine having a tool that can automatically detect if you are using JPA and Hibernate properly. Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool!
Introduction
60 years of COBOL, and, most likely, it’s here for the future. In this article, we have the pleasure of interviewing Adrian Tot about the past, present, and future of this technology that still has a very significant impact on our day-to-day business operations.
As software developers, we dream of using the latest technologies to solve various business use cases. However, lots of software systems still run on COBOL, a 60-year old English-like data processing language inspired by Grace Hopper’s idea of having a programming language that’s machine-independent.
Every now and then, I kept on stumbling on articles about COBOL that made me more curious about it. For instance, it was in 2014 that I read that there are 200 times more COBOL transactions executed on a per-daily basis than Google searches.
Or, I remember reading an article in 2017 about U.S. Digital Service attempts to modernize some legacy systems, which required interconnecting a Java-based application with a COBOL mainframe application. In the article, Marianne Bellotti explained that it was Java that was the bottleneck since the COBOL application response time was just 1 millisecond.
Or, recently, at the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic, the U.S. Department of Labor was switching to the paper applications because the 40-year old COBOL system responsible for unemployment claims was overwhelmed with the afflux of requests.
This is a very interesting topic, and since I’ve never worked with COBOL, I decided to interview one of my friends, Adrian Tot, who has been using COBOL for over 15 years.
Hibernate Session doWork and doReturningWork methods
Imagine having a tool that can automatically detect if you are using JPA and Hibernate properly. Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool!
Introduction
In this article, I’m going to explain how the Hibernate Session doWork and doReturningWork methods work, and when you should use them.
Seven years of blogging
Imagine having a tool that can automatically detect if you are using JPA and Hibernate properly. Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool!
It’s all about Persistence!
7 years of blogging have taught me that it's all about Persistence.
— Vlad Mihalcea (@vlad_mihalcea) September 24, 2020
Seven years ago today, I wrote my very first article, and every year I like to write a report with all the achievements that I’ve made over the last year.
Spring Boot performance monitoring
Imagine having a tool that can automatically detect if you are using JPA and Hibernate properly. Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool!
Introduction
To ensure that your Spring Boot application fulfills the SLA (Service Level Agreement) requirements, you need a performance monitoring tool.
In this article, I’m going to show you how you can monitor the data access layer of a Spring Boot application using Hypersistence Optimizer.
Why and when you should use JPA
Imagine having a tool that can automatically detect if you are using JPA and Hibernate properly. Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool!
Introduction
If you are wondering why and when you should use JPA or Hibernate, then this article is going to provide you an answer to this very common question. Because I’ve seen this question asked very often on the /r/java Reddit channel, I decided that it’s worth writing an in-depth answer about the strengths and weaknesses of JPA and Hibernate.
Although JPA has been a standard since it was first released in 2006, it’s not the only way you can implement a data access layer using Java. We are going to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using JPA or any other popular alternatives.
Hibernate hbm2ddl.auto schema generation
Imagine having a tool that can automatically detect if you are using JPA and Hibernate properly. Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool!
Introduction
In this article, we are going to see how the Hibernate hbm2ddl.auto schema generation tool works, and when it’s appropriate to use it.
How to encrypt and decrypt JSON properties with JPA
Imagine having a tool that can automatically detect if you are using JPA and Hibernate properly. Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool!
Introduction
In this article, we are going to see how we can encrypt and decrypt JSON properties when using JPA and Hibernate.
While encrypting the entire column value is very straightforward, when it comes to JSON columns, we need to preserve the JSON object structure while only encrypting the JSON property values.
