Mike Hostetler

Sr. Consultant

Mike has almost 20 years of experience in technology. He started in networking and Unix administration, and grew into technical support and QA testing. But he has always done some development on the side and decided a few years ago to pursue it full-time. His history of working with users gives Mike a unique perspective on writing software.

Recent Blog Posts

JVM

Missing Codecs in MongoDB

November 28th, 2017

What to do when you get org.bson.codecs.configuration.CodecConfigurationException: cant find a codec for class java.math.BigDecimal.

Mike Hostetler
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Handy Gradle Recipes

November 8th, 2017

Some tweaks and hints for gradle

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Getting XML Directly from PostgreSQL

September 22nd, 2017

There was a discussion on our company Slack recently about databases and XML, and someone pointed out that PostgreSQL has some nice XML functions . I’m a Postgres fan and knew that it had some XML functions but haven’t dug into them yet. Using my…

Mike Hostetler
JVM

Exciting things in Spring Boot 2

June 27th, 2017

I looked at the release notes for Spring Boot 2.0.0.M1 not expecting a lot of exciting changes but was surprised by some compelling things. There is the usual “deprecated classes are removed” and “Dependency X is upgraded” but there are some more…

Mike Hostetler
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Database Migrations in Flyway

June 21st, 2017

Database migration in the Java-world with Flyway

Mike Hostetler