Dubai Desert Safari: Is it worth it?

We travel to Dubai and we took a Desert Safari tour to see the two things that we wanted the most: Camel ride and desert view. But, is it worth it?

Learnings from the book The Good Enough Job

These are my learnings from the book The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

Learnings from the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications

These are my learnings from the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications

How to Migrate Spring Boot from 2.7 to 3.2: A detailed migration guide

I have recently migrated several projects and libraries from Spring Boot 2.7.15 to Spring Boot 3.2.4 and I would like to share some insights into the changes

Modified: November 13, 2024 · Created: April 27, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Migrating Spring Sleuth to Micrometer Observability in Spring Boot 3

Spring Sleuth was removed in Spring Boot version 3 in favor of Micrometer and I recently migrated many services and want to share the learnings with you.

Modified: November 13, 2024 · Created: April 11, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Replacing deprecated @EnableResourceServer with Spring Security

We recently replaced the deprecated @EnableResourceServer with Spring Security and in this post I will share what we did and the new code.

Modified: November 13, 2024 · Created: April 1, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Hiking the Tunnel Bluffs from Lions Bay trail

Tunnel Bluffs from Lions Bay is a really nice moderate hike with an amazing view at the end

Hiking BCMC Trail in Winter

BCMC is one of the most popular hikes in Grouse Mountain and the view in winter is amazing

Learnings from the book Outlive

These are my learnings from the book Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity written by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford.

Learnings from the book An Immense World

These are my learnings from the book An Immense World: How Animals Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us written by Ed Yong