Almost every developer knows the problem to read large sets of data from the database. It may crash your application with an OutOfMemoryError and cripple its performance.
As a consequence, filtering and processing large results may even further increase memory consumption.
Luckily, there is a convenient remedy using Hibernate and Kotlin sequences.
Continue readingLet’s say you had an encrypted conversation with Bob yesterday. Today Bob accidentally posts his secret key on the internet. You still want your conversation to be private, right? So what can you do? You can use a cryptographic protocol with perfect forward secrecy (PFS). That will protect you against similar blunders by your conversation partners and even your own blunders of this type. Sounds pretty desirable, right?
Since the Snowden leaks, we know for sure that a variety of state run intelligence services record your communication – some of them with the explicit intent to decrypt it later when possible. And with many protocols you just need to break one key to be able to decipher many messages. PFS also protects against that: you usually need to break every single message individually.
So both blunder, as well as outright malice, pose a sizeable threat, which therefore we need to consider when designing our threat models.
Continue readingSome time ago I wrote this short article about co- and controvariance in Kotlin and how these features help the developer to write less error prone code. When I talked with some colleagues about TypeScript, I recognized that, despite some experiences I made with small pet projects, I do no know about type variance in TypeScript. Thus, I decided to take a look and was surprised. TypeScript is not that well-typed as I thought…
Continue readingHibernate internally uses an abstract metadata model to validate the data model defined by the declared entities. The framework also offers entry points to enhance this metadata model with custom code.
In this article we show how to extend the generated metadata model using annotations. Our example is to implement a convenient way to define common table prefixes for subclasses of a “@MappedSuperclass” entity.
Continue readingFor optimal performance developers often define database indexes in the JPA data model classes. While this is relatively easy at entity class level, it becomes quite cumbersome if you your model consists of a deeply nested inheritance hierarchy using “mapped” super classes. I.e., there is no direct way that indexes defined for super classes will be added to entities automatically. Instead you have to repeat them every time.
In this article we show how to to circumvent this problem using Hibernate’s MetadataBuilderImplementor SPI.
Docker is a great tool for developing micro services that may be composed together in order to form a larger application. However, Docker containers run in a network apart from the host machine. That makes it sometimes cumbersome and complicated to use common host names within the Docker network and the host network. In this article we’ll show a simple knack that may be applied in order to use identical host names in both networks.
Continue readingThis blog article is part of a “series of blog articles” about common pitfalls using JPA and ways to avoid them. In this article, we describe a problem with entites not beeing removed altough EntityManager.remove succeeds.
To evaluate the impact of memory management in Rust, I implemented a short benchmark in Rust and Kotlin. You can find all the details here and here. Measurements showed that Rust is roughly a factor of 10 faster than Kotlin, most probably caused by better handling of memory garbage. Being a big fan of Haskell, I was curious to see how the grand old lady of functional programming would compete against these two. So, I implemented the benchmark, did some measurements, and was surprised.
Continue readingThis blog article is part of a “series of blog articles” about common pitfalls using JPA and ways to avoid them. In this article, we describe a problem with unextected changes when using DTOs.
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