Twelve years of blogging
Twelve years later! Twelve years ago today, I decided to create this blog on WordPress.com to share whatever I was finding interesting while working as a software architect. Prior to starting this blog, I didn’t have any writing experience, which you can clearly see in the first article I’ve ever published. However, practice makes perfect, and in time, I managed to learn how to express myself in writing, whether it was an article, a social media post, an answer on StackOverflow, or a book.
Eleven years of blogging
Eleven years later! Eleven years ago today, I decided to create my blog on WordPress.com, and this is the first article I published.
Ten years of blogging
Ten years later! Ten years ago today, I decided to start blogging and published this article about injecting a List of Spring beans using the @Autowired annotation.
Nine years of blogging
Nine years already! Nine years ago today, I decided I would give blogging a chance. At the time, I had absolutely no writing experience. Here’s my very first article about injecting a List of beans using the Spring @Autowired annotation. No headers, no proper code formatting, and no idea what I was doing.
Eight years of blogging
Eight years and counting! It was September 2013, and I had always wanted to start a blog but had never found the motivation to do it. If you keep on waiting for the right time to do something, that day might never come. Either you start right away, or you just keep on lying to yourself.
20 years of Hibernate
Introduction 20 years of Hibernate and counting. On the 23rd of May 2001, Gavin King launched the first version of Hibernate. Twenty years later, Hibernate is one the most successful Java data access frameworks, having millions of developers using it on a per-daily basis.
Seven years of blogging
It’s all about Persistence! 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.
Six years of blogging
Quality over quantity I’ve been blogging for six years already, and every year I like to write a report with the achievements I’ve made over the last year. If you are curious about my previous reports, check out the following list: 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 Page Views In 2019, I got around 10,547 daily page views, meaning that this year, I’ll get over 3.85 million page views. That’s a 22% traffic increase since 2018. Overall, in these six years of blogging, I got over 8.8 million page views and 4.5 million… Read More
Five years of blogging
Persistence, right? I’ve been blogging for five years already. Every year, I happen to write a report, and if you are curious about my progress, check out the previous reports: 2017 2016 2015 2014 Page Views Compared to last year, the traffic almost doubled, and now I get around 270K page views and over 130K visitors on a monthly basis. Overall, in these five years, I got over 5 million page views and 2.7 million visitors. Cool, right?
Four years of blogging
Time flies when you’re having fun It’s been fours years since I started this blog, and every year I happen to write a report. If you are curious about my progress, check out the previous reports: 2016 2015 2014 Page Views Compared to last year, the traffic doubled and now I get around 150K page views and over 75K visitors on a monthly basis. Overall, in these four years, I got over 2.5 million page views and 1.4 million visitors. Looks like high-performance data access is still a thing after all.
