My Pillars of Health: Guidelines to help me live healthier and better

My Pillars of Health are guidelines that help me keep healthy and push me to do things that will make me feel better and have a good lifespan and healthspan.

Created: June 24, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) ·  Lifestyle

Learnings from the book A Guide to the Good Life

These are my learnings from the book A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy written by William B. Irvine

The Best of Dubai: A review of all that we did and liked the most

We stayed 8 days in Dubai and in this post, we describe the best attractions and what you need to know before going to Dubai.

Created: June 2, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) ·  Travel

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?

Created: May 27, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) ·  Travel

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

Created: April 27, 2024 · Modified: November 13, 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.

Created: April 11, 2024 · Modified: November 13, 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.

Created: April 1, 2024 · Modified: November 13, 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

Created: March 23, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) ·  Adventures