Azure Functions support several runtime environments including the Java Virtual Machine, which allows us to implement functions in programming languages like Java and Kotlin. Let's have a look at how a simple Azure Function can be implemented with Java.

In this post I will present some tricks that I learned creating demo sites for blog posts and PoCs. You will learn how to configure a JSON-server API and deploy it on the same Heroku site than the frontend app. You will also learn how to use Faker to generate fake data for your JSON server.

Sharing knowledge is not only a service to those around us, but it also helps us in deepening our own understanding. See how you can set up a statically generated blog with Hugo and GitHub Pages in less time than most movies take!

The idea of an API-first approach is to treat APIs as first-class citizens by building the software product around APIs. Formal specifications serve as the contract and define, what the consumer can expect from the API. To ensure consistency of the contract and the implementation, some parts of the source code can be generated from the specification document.

This post shows how to use git hooks, to prevent commit or push under certain circumstances, and particularly how to version those git hooks.