There is this awesome release plugin which takes care of the usual stuff and more, like checking uncommitted files, checking if commit is pushed or not, and adding release tag etc.

Few days ago I had read someone’s blog on how they went with the flow and tried gradle and eventually ended up in a mess and went back to good ol’ maven.

Disclaimer : I speak for myself and this is purely based on my personal experiences.

This is a note to self. A stupid error that was bugging me for sometime.

There is this nice Lombok plugin for IntelliJ which runs just fine. Of late, I did certain upgrades on IntelliJ and started seeing this error :

"Ambigous method call. Both method() and method() match."

As applications grow, number of APIs increase, number of consumers increase, it is extremely critical to have a uniform response structure across all APIs. Different APIs behaving differently, conflicting error codes or a HttpStatus of 500 for something like a invalid credit card number or email in the request payload is highly undesirable.

Quite a sad story that swagger (1.5.x) does not go so smooth with Dropwizard (0.9), particularly when you have joda LocalDateTime objects, authenticated APIs, and probably snake_case dto objects.