Dogfooding, or eating your own dog food, is a practice that all product developers should implement all the time. According to wikipedia: Dogfooding, occurs when an organization uses its own product. This can be a way for an organization to test its products in real-world usage. Hence dogfooding can act as quality control, and eventually … Continue reading Dogfooding in Product Development
Category: migrations
How to Simulate a Liquibase Migration using H2
This post is part of a new blog series about database migrations, which will cover a variety of database change management topics. In the near future, we'll look much more into these topics, hoping to add more value to our users' existing Flyway, Liquibase, and other integrations where the migration tools can profit a lot … Continue reading How to Simulate a Liquibase Migration using H2
Truth First, or Why You Should Mostly Implement Database First Designs
In this much overdue article, I will explain why I think that in almost all cases, you should implement a "database first" design in your application's data models, rather than a "Java first" design (or whatever your client language is), the latter approach leading to a long road of pain and suffering, once your project … Continue reading Truth First, or Why You Should Mostly Implement Database First Designs
jOOQ Tuesdays: Axel Fontaine Predicts Exciting Times as our Industry is Maturing
Welcome to the jOOQ Tuesdays series. In this series, we’ll publish an article on the third Tuesday every other month where we interview someone we find exciting in our industry from a jOOQ perspective. This includes people who work with SQL, Java, Open Source, and a variety of other related topics. We have the pleasure … Continue reading jOOQ Tuesdays: Axel Fontaine Predicts Exciting Times as our Industry is Maturing
Flyway and jOOQ for Unbeatable SQL Development Productivity
When performing database migrations, we at Data Geekery recommend using jOOQ with Flyway - Database Migrations Made Easy. In this post, we're going to look into a simple way to get started with the two frameworks. Philosophy There are a variety of ways how jOOQ and Flyway could interact with each other in various development … Continue reading Flyway and jOOQ for Unbeatable SQL Development Productivity
Liquibase for DB Migrations
I have just now discovered a very nice-looking tool for database migrations: Liquibase https://www.liquibase.org/ With Liquibase, you can model your DB increments as XML files that will translate to as many as 13 different databases. A sample DB increment (taken from the Liquibase manual): property='vat' ...and so on. I guess it's about time to contact … Continue reading Liquibase for DB Migrations