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Designing for Operator Control: Embedding a Network CLI in Your JVM-Based Web Service with Vert.x

By Mason Graye in engineering on 31 May 2020

This post briefly demos adding a diagnostic network interface to a JVM-based web service using Vert.x, a tool-kit for building reactive JVM applications. From Dev to DevOpsWhen you move on from your new framework's tutorials to actually building a real web service, you begin to realize just how wide…

Write courageously.

By Mason Graye in software on 19 May 2020

My favorite definition of courage is, roughly, "being afraid to do the right thing, and doing it anyway." I've always viewed technical writing as a courageous act. In a world of petty arguments over tabs vs spaces, vim vs emacs, and React vs Vue.js—strongly (though increasingly jokingly) expressed…

We must begin again.

By Mason Graye on 18 May 2020

This time, with feeling.…

A New Chapter

By Mason Graye in personal on 18 Nov 2018

November 30, 2018 marks my last day at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and the beginning of something new.…