In last few months I looked into Zipkin which is a ‘Distributed Systems Tracing’ framework implementation open sourced by Twitter and implemented based on the Dapper paper published by Google. [Read More]

If you are an RSS feed reader you probably use or used Google Reader and you probably know by now that Google Reader is shutting down the 1st of July :-( I think it is not a smart move and I agree with what is written here. [Read More]

I like to use the Maven site plugin to generate documentation for a project because it has the advantage that the documentation is versioned together with the source code and that the site is generated automatically when releasing your software using the Maven release plugin. [Read More]

I see quite some people who use Linux fiddling with external display settings when they have to give a presentation. I have configured my Xubuntu 12.04 to make this a lot easier. [Read More]