Rob

  https://www.linkedin.com/in/robffoley/ Rob is a multi-language developer. In his spare time, he enjoys riding his motorcycle and playing guitar in his band.

   



11 Stories by Rob

REST vs. gRPC

When building a new web-based service, one of the inevitable questions that comes up is “How am I going to talk to it?” Do...
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Java 10 improvements to Garbage Collection explained in 5 minutes

Java 10 has officially been out for almost a month now, and it brought with it some improvements to the G1 garbage collector. G1...
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How to improve your code using SonarQube

Code quality is arguably one of the most important parts of Software Development – badly written code can cost time and money as you’ll...
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What is new in PDF Spec 2.0?

After 8 years in the making, PDF 2.0 has finally been released. From new annotations, to digital signatures, to generally making the specification clearer...
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Signal v. Noise – 3 articles you should read

Recently, I started following Signal v. Noise on Medium. Signal v. Noise is (to quote the blog directly) “Strong opinions and shared thoughts on...
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