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When AI Makes Things More Complex (And You Have to Say No)
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Reading time: 4 minutes Part of my ongoing series exploring real-world software development with AI. In my previous post, I discussed the challenge of keeping up with the volume of code AI can generate. This post covers a different challenge:…
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The Moment of Realisation
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Reading time: 8 minutes A strange thing happened this week while building software with AI: AI was helping me generate more code than I could comfortably read. AI Lets One Person Generate More Code Than One Person Can Comfortably Read…
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WebSphere Liberty and the value of WebSphere Hybrid Edition
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I have worked with WebSphere Application Server (WAS) for the better part of 15 years. My experience with WAS has generally been fantastic, great up time, great performance, few if any failures to speak of, a truly rock-solid workhorse. However,…
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How to deploy an Open Liberty InstantOn app to OpenShift Local
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This guide steps you through the process to deploy a simple Open Liberty InstantOn app to OpenShift Local running on your PC. I have completed this guide on my desktop PC plus my laptop so hopefully all works. Let me know if you…
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How to build an Open Liberty InstantOn app using podman
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This guide steps you through the process to build a simple Open Liberty InstantOn app using podman. In later guides, you can deploy this Open Liberty InstantOn app to OpenShift. 20 minutes reading time. More time to complete. Audience The audience…
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What happens if you don’t set the crc podman-env now
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It is important that you set the “crc podman-env” properly before pushing images to OpenShift Local. I have found, when I don’t do this, that I encounter errors when pushing the image to the OpenShift Local internal registry. This post…
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How to solve problems when using Open Liberty InstantOn
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During my early attempts to create an Open Liberty InstantOn image I encountered many problems. Initially this was due to my lack of skills and experience. Later this was due to the highly technical nature of building and using Open…
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How to solve problems while using OpenShift Local
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While OpenShift Local is fantastic to use when it runs, you may encounter many frustrating hours like me. This is especially true when new to OpenShift Local. This post contains a collection of problems I’ve encountered with possible solutions. Problem…
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