Det var en stund sedan jag skrev något här men nu är hjärnan full med saker som måste ut.

Prolog: Over The Bar

There is a place in Norway named Hell. It is a small community of fewer than 2,000 people, and everyone knows each other. And everyone depends on each other.

A couple of days ago, Java 25 reached General Availability and all the big vendors officially released their JDK 25 versions.

Java 25 is here!
How will the latest release transforms the way we write, teach, and learn Java? What will streamlined source files and powerful new features bring to the table? And what will all the old developers that thinks Java is good as it is think?

In my previous blog post Good habits when designing REST APIs, I sort of ended with a little cliffhanger that there are more things that could be done to make life easier for your fellow developers. Today, we are diving into The Discovery of REST APIs and the magical use of HAL and HATEOAS.

Cargo Cult Coding: När vi kopierar ritualer istället för att förstå värde

I have previously shared some thoughts about when to use REST and when not to in and the REST is history. In that post, I stated that a good time to use REST is when “you need public APIs that are easy to understand and use”.

In his PhD dissertation “Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures”, Roy Fielding defined the REST architecture style.