Book Review – Just Use Postgres!

Introduction My friend, Denis Magda, wrote a wonderful book called Just Use Postgres!, and I’m glad that I got the chance to read it.

Book Review – Troubleshooting Java

Introduction My friend, Laurentiu Spilca, has been working on the second edition of his Troubleshooting Java book, and when I was asked to review it, I was more than happy to do it since the book features a lot of topics that I’m also very interested in, such as performance tuning and query optimization.

Book Review – Beginning Helidon

Introduction My friend, Dmitry Aleksandrov, has been very generous in giving me a copy of his Helidon book, which he co-authored with Dmitry Kornilov and Daniel Kec. Since I was interested in learning about Helidon, I decided to read this book and see what approach it takes to develop Java applications, as opposed to Spring Boot. The book is called Beginning Helidon, and it’s a very good introduction to this framework.