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Engineering Catchup – Taming Complexity: Functional Error Handling with Arrow.kt November 2025 Friday, 21 November 2025  12:00 – 12:30Time zone: Europe/LondonGoogle Meet joining info Video call link: https://meet.google.com/tjs-rkdu-nfm   Level: Basic level of Kotlin programming (intermediate Java required)     * Beyond Imperative* Curious Java Developer* Heard about FP blocked by intimidation or eco-system* For […]

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Question about mobile phone testing for development: Tale of Configuration HTTP with SSL So I configured on my ancient now MBP with Homebrew HTTPD server with SSL. I have secured sites locally to 127.0.0.1 (localhost): https://inye.peter.test/ https://zimbini.peter.test/ https://zinthathu.peter.test/ (Of course, these sites will not work – I’m meaning you. Dunny. 😉 So in reality they […]

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My name is Peter Pilgrim, Principal Engineer, Lead Developer and I am looking for next contract engagement immediately. My primary strength skills are Java software engineering with Kotlin server-side programming. The tech stack in my day-to-day is: Java 21, Spring Boot 3, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, Angular, Kotlin, Scala, Gradle, Maven, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, MongoDB, […]

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In this episode E3, I talk about my ideal team organisation structure. My name is Peter Pilgrim and I am your JAVA TECH COACH. Currently, at the time of blogging, I am AVAILABLE 4 HIRE I have a lot of experience working in agile teams. I found really excellent people in great culture, which gell […]

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In this episode E2, I take a look at project inception from a very high level of flight, the so-called golden eagle level. In my career, especially as contractor, the project inception has already started long ago on the day I join the project. A contractor job is to deliver the functionality, “hit the ground […]

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Well the end arrived June 2025 Let me just say that Technical Leadership without the belief of people sucks to high heaven. I will talk about it one day, maybe. I will looking for a new role. Hello my name is Peter Pilgrim #OpenToWorkI’m looking for a functional open-inclusive positive team, superb culture and projects […]

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For very long time I have been away in a stew, so please accept my humblest apologies, I am blogging once again, because I am fed up with X/Twitter, Mastadon and LinkedIn. My name is Peter Pilgrim. I’m a Principal Engineer and also a Java champion and I work for a UK technical consultancy. Today […]

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Very gratefully, I have good news. I have survived the great industry tech disruption 2023. I started a brand new role at Solirius Consulting LTD as a Principal Engineer. Solirius are an independent technology consultancy that supply advanced solution architectures to clients in the private and public sector. The last few months have been, shall […]

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This is my admission. A brain dump of an awkward Scala interviewing experience, first of all, I am going to hold my fire, because in the end state, it really does not matter. Instead, the adage that I elect to follow is known as Knowledge is Power – Share Some, Rasta. I have some experience […]

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In this episode 7, I review my experiences of using in a real situation recruitment agent-less (or is it agent-free) job platforms. I look at Hired, Otta and Cord. There is that dream of magic employment or contract, where you get business without relying on a third party, the client is easily able to find […]

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Hello March 2023, I bought this Pozzani IX 600 Water Filter for a brand new kitchen installation at home. My fitter installed a brand new kitchen in April 2023. They also installed the Pozzani water filter. It appeared to be working, but after the fitters left, I realised the filter is very slow almost a […]

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Last week, I presented a Java Interview Question 2: How to Find Duplicate Integers and Sort? We had a test harness to find all duplicate integers in a list collection. We wanted a sorted set of integers as a String text output. A modern Java solution is the following: I coded against Java 19, however […]