When building asynchronous, event-driven applications with Vert.x, managing dependencies without a full-fledged DI framework can be a challenge. Traditional frameworks like Spring Boot are popular in the microservices world, but they can introduce extra runtime overhead and obscure dependency flows—issues that can be particularly problematic in a high-performance Vert.x environment. In this post, we’ll explore […]
Ruuvi is a Finnish company producing high quality sensors that measure temperature, humidity, air pressure and motion. They have two types of sensors RuuviTag and RuuviTag Pro. The pro sensors are meant for harsher conditions and there’s a version that can be submerged in water. I have both types of sensors and even the non […]
I have a Novitek hot tub that has Balboa ControlMySpa WIFI controller and I wanted to be able add some smarts to when it’s heating with these very volatile electricity prices. Sadly the only Balboa integration I was able to find was for an older controller that was not ControlMySpa compatible. ControlMySpa does have Amazon […]
This week I was featured on Finnish media sites quite prominently. It all started when I gave an interview to the Finnish newspaper Aamulehti about how I invest for son’s future and how he could become a millionaire with just under 95€/month invested from birth until he turns 17. What makes that news worthy and […]
It’s very common to terminate HTTPS (TLS) at higher up in your server stack but you still need your webapp running in tomcat to generate the urls using https even though tomcat is called with http internally in your network. This seems to be a very common problem that I keep seeing year after year […]