Nicolas Frankel

Technologist focusing on cloud-native technologies, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and system observability. His focus revolves around creating technical content, delivering talks, and engaging with developer communities to promote the adoption of modern software practices. With a strong background in software, he has worked extensively with the JVM, applying his expertise across various industries. In addition to his technical work, he is the author of several books and regularly shares insights through his blog and open-source contributions.

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Nicolas Frankel Mar 29, 2021 2,785 views

A (Definitive?) Guide to LazyInitializationException

Posts that have been written about Hibernate's LazyInitializationException could probably fill whole books. Time for a definitive guide!

Performance

Nicolas Frankel Mar 22, 2021 2,802 views

Kicking Spring Native's Tires with GraalVM

Despite all the "magic" of Spring Boot, Spring Native handles most of GraalVM's required configuration out-of-the-box!

Performance Research

Nicolas Frankel Mar 2, 2021 8,068 views

Monitoring Across Frameworks: Spring Boot, Quarkus, Micronaut, Helidon

Gone are the times when developers' jobs ended with the release of the application and Spring Boot, Quarkus, Micronaut, Helidon can help!

Spring

Nicolas Frankel Feb 22, 2021 4,272 views

Learning About Optional.stream() in OpenJDK and Java

This week, I learned about a "new" feature of Optional that I want to share in this post. Available since Java 9, its novelty is relative.

Java Core

Nicolas Frankel Feb 1, 2021 2,695 views

How to Create Self-Contained Executable JARs

This article aims to describe ways to create self-contained executable JARs, also known as uber-JARs or fat JARs.

Java Core

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