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Java 9 Modularity: Patterns and Practices for Developing Maintainable Applications

Java 9 Modularity: Patterns and Practices for Developing Maintainable Applications

With this book, developers will learn not only about the joys of modularity, but also about the patterns needed to create truly modular applications.

2017

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Picnic Engineering

Meet the Trainers of Picnic’s Tech Academy

Picnic’s Tech Academy plays a pivotal role in upskilling our tech team. We’ve previously written about how the Academy’s Java Learning path…

6 min readNov 14, 2023

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Meet the Trainers of Picnic’s Tech Academy

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Picnic Engineering

Why Picnic picked Java

Picking a tech stack for your startup isn’t something to do lightly. It’s a choice that will shape the future in many ways: how will the…

9 min readDec 20, 2022

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Why Picnic picked Java

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Picnic Engineering

Picnic Open-sources Error Prone Support

We’re excited to announce that Picnic’s Error Prone Support project is now open-source!

3 min readOct 13, 2022

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Picnic Open-sources Error Prone Support

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Picnic Engineering

Embracing Java 17 — Here’s What We Learned

Java 17? Count us in! At Picnic, we’re more than a grocery delivery company. There’s a lot of tech behind the scenes that enables us to…

5 min readNov 2, 2021

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Embracing Java 17 — Here’s What We Learned

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Picnic Engineering

Software Architecture for Scale-ups

You’re part of a small start-up. There’s only one thing on your mind: shipping a product and rapidly finding product-market fit. Code is…

6 min readJul 14, 2021

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Software Architecture for Scale-ups

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Picnic Engineering

Scaling Picnic systems in Corona times

As an online groceries company, Picnic saw an enormous increase in demand during the start of the Corona crisis. Our systems suddenly…

8 min readJul 21, 2020

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Scaling Picnic systems in Corona times

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Picnic Engineering

CodeOne 2019: The State of Java

At Picnic we build most of our backend systems with Java. Why? It’s a proven workhorse in our industry, offering great performance and…

4 min readSep 24, 2019

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CodeOne 2019: The State of Java

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97 Things

The Rebirth of Java

Java has been declared dead more than any other programming language, it seems. As usual, reports of its death are greatly exaggerated…

3 min readJun 25, 2019

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The Rebirth of Java

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Sander Mak

Sander Mak

Book Author

Doing tech @ Picnic, Java Champion & author of the http://javamodularity.com book for O’Reilly. Also Pluralsight instructor: http://bit.ly/ps-sander

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