🌟 Hello Fullstackers!
As we move deeper into September, big projects are no longer just ideas on the whiteboard — they’re becoming reality. It’s the season to roll up our sleeves, commit code, and face complexity head-on.
💡“The best way to get something done is to begin.”
— Walt Disney.
💡“The best way to get something done is to begin.”
— Walt Disney.
This week’s edition is all about digging in: pushing through the hard parts, finding flow in the middle of complexity, and remembering that every line of code, every stand-up, every merged PR is a step toward something bigger.
Inside you’ll find your usual mix of Java insights, Kubernetes practices, Kafka wisdom, teamwork inspiration, Scrum guidance, and a joke to keep it all light.
Let’s make this sprint count — one commit at a time. 🚀
#kafka
In Kafka, you want to send big files (> 1 MB). Which broker setting must you change?
- 📥 fetch.max.bytes
- 📦 max.partition.fetch.bytes
- ✉️ message.max.bytes
- 📑 log.segment.bytes
Answer: ✅ The right choice is: message.max.bytes
👉 This setting controls the largest message size the broker accepts. 👉 Increase it if you need to produce files bigger than 1 MB.
#team
SOFT SKILL: Let it go
💡 We often forgive others more easily than we forgive ourselves. But holding on to guilt, regret, or shame only adds to our emotional baggage—and keeps us from moving forward.
✨ Forgiveness isn’t about forgetting. It’s about releasing the weight that holds you back and choosing kindness toward yourself.
Discover how to let go and move on ⬇️ Make the best of tomorrow and let it go!
#mindset #selfgrowth #forgiveness
#java
Records
🚀 Goodbye boilerplate, hello clarity: Java Records
If your codebase still has “data-only” classes filled with ctors, getters, equals/hashCode, and toString, it’s time to modernize. With Records (JEP 395, Java 16+), you declare the state, and Java gives you the API:
- ✍️ One-liner declarations for immutable data
- 🧠 Auto-generated accessors, equals, hashCode, toString
- ✅ Validation/normalization via canonical or compact constructors
- 🏷️ Component annotations propagate to fields/ctors/accessors
- 🤝 Plays beautifully with sealed hierarchies & pattern matching for switch
Tell me: what’s the first class you’ll convert to a record?
#Java #JavaRecords #JEP395 #CleanCode #Immutability #SealedClasses #PatternMatching #JavaDev #DeveloperExperience #SoftwareEngineering #CodeQuality
#agile
Using a "Technical Debt Register"
Technical debt isn’t every bug—it’s the costly design choices you keep carrying ⚖️.
Grab the playbook to identify it, track it, and reduce it sprint-by-sprint—no “hardening sprints” required 🔄.
#cloudNative
❓ How should you decide the size of microservices in a cloud-native app?
Pick one:
- Group by bounded context
- Put everything in one service
- One service per database table
- Copy the org chart
✅ Correct Answer: 1. Group by bounded context
💡 Why? Microservices follow domain-driven design. Bounded contexts help keep services focused, clear, and loosely coupled.
❌ Why the others are wrong:
- 2. One big service → That’s a monolith, not microservices.
- 3. One per table → Too fine-grained, adds complexity.
- 4. Copy org chart → Conway’s Law may influence design, but it’s not the core principle.
Bounded Context by Martin Fowler: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/BoundedContext.html
#joke
So the humor is: it promises two problems, counts like a programmer (from 0), then accidentally lists three—perfectly illustrating the third problem.
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