Dimitar Makariev - Java consultant

Advanced Practices in Spring Boot: Building a Modular Application with Docker, Zipkin, and 100% Code Coverage

Posted on April 25, 2024

Advanced practices in software development not only streamline production but also enhance the maintainability and scalability of applications. This blog post delves into constructing a Spring Boot application, utilizing Docker for consistent local environment, Zipkin for tracing, and strategies to achieve 100% code coverage. We’ll explore setting up a feature-based... [Read More]

Tags: tutorial java spring boot docker

Springing Forward: The Evolution of Architecture Through the Years with Spring Framework

Posted on April 10, 2024

While diving into @Josh Long’s “This Week in Spring - April 9th, 2024”, I discovered an insightful article: “How Spring and Java Shaped Internal Developer Platforms”. [Read More]

Tags: spring boot architecture

Testing Spring Boot CRUD REST APIs with MockMvc - Practical Example

Posted on March 14, 2024

Testing is a crucial part of any application development process, especially when building RESTful APIs with Spring Boot. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through a practical example of testing CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) REST APIs for a Person entity using Spring Data JPA with H2 as the... [Read More]

Tags: spring boot mockmvc junit

How to Build a Spring Boot Monolith with JBang

Posted on February 29, 2024

In this blog post, we will embark on an exciting journey of building a full-fledged Spring Boot Monolith application implementing CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on a Person entity. We’ll leverage JPA for data persistence, Swagger for API documentation, Postgres as our database, and Vue.js 3 for the front-end.... [Read More]

Tags: tutorial java spring boot jbang docker vue

How to Build a Spring Boot Rest Api with JBang in a Single Java File

Posted on February 8, 2024

In the world of Java development, Spring Boot has become synonymous with creating robust, scalable, and maintainable web applications. Traditionally, building a Spring Boot application involved setting up a project with a complex directory structure, multiple configuration files, and various dependencies. However, with the advent of JBang, a lightweight scripting... [Read More]

Tags: tutorial java spring boot jbang

Fashion MNIST in CSV

Posted on January 25, 2024

The Fashion-MNIST is a dataset of Zalando’s article images. It serves as a direct drop-in replacement for the original MNIST dataset for benchmarking machine learning algorithms. This dataset includes 60,000 training examples and 10,000 test examples, each being a 28x28 grayscale image associated with a label from 10 classes. [Read More]

Tags: ai mnist neural network popular

Advancing Java Neural Networks: Introducing Mini-Batch Updates and Parallelism

Posted on January 11, 2024

In the evolving landscape of machine learning, efficiency and scalability are paramount. Java developers leveraging neural networks have long sought ways to speed up the training process and manage resource utilization more effectively. The transformation from SimpleMLP to SimpleMLPBatch represents a significant leap in achieving these goals by introducing mini-batch... [Read More]

Tags: ai jbang java neural network mnist

Enhancing Java Neural Networks: Boosting MNIST Digit Classification with Apache Commons Math

Posted on December 21, 2023

In our quest for a more efficient and faster machine learning model, we often turn to optimizing our tools and techniques. In this blog post, we’ll explore how we can significantly improve the performance of a Java-based neural network by leveraging the power of matrix operations provided by Apache Commons... [Read More]

Tags: ai jbang java neural network mnist

A Java Neural Network Tutorial: Classifying MNIST Handwritten Digits

Posted on December 14, 2023

Understanding neural networks is one thing, but seeing them in action is quite another. The MNIST database, a large collection of handwritten digits, is the perfect playground to train and test a neural network for image recognition. In this blog post, we will build upon our previous “Crafting a Neural... [Read More]

Tags: ai jbang java neural network mnist popular

Exploring the Classic MNIST: A Benchmark for Machine Learning Models

Posted on December 7, 2023

In the realm of machine learning and pattern recognition, the MNIST dataset stands as a benchmark for algorithms and methods. It’s akin to the hello world of machine learning for classification tasks. Before delving into the technicalities of multi-class classification, let’s embark on a journey to fully understand the MNIST... [Read More]

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