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My blog has just turned 12. To celebrate the anniversary, I wrote a blog post that captures the history behind my blog and the amazing things that blogging has enabled for my caree…

Shopify uses a modular monolith architecture built with Ruby on Rails and MySQL. 2021 was their biggest Black Friday Cyber Monday Together with the Google Cloud infrastructure team…

I've been using Hibernate for 17 years and never had any performance issue with it. Want to know my secret? It's very simple. I just read the manual in 2004. After using it success…

When you use a publisher, you only have to write the book, and the publisher will take care of editing, printing, distribution, marketing, advertising, etc. When you self-publish a…

I wrote the book in MarkDown using IntelliJ IDEA. The book is stored on GitHub and LeanPub fetches the files and renders it. My blog is running on WordPress.com. I'm using a Busine…

They told me that it will help me get a better job. At the time I was working for Red Hat on the Hibernate project. I said that I doubt they could help me find a better job conside…

I'm using Grammarly to correct my spelling mistakes. It also provides tips about phrasing.

I've been using Java since 2005 so it's the ecosystem I know best. When I started my blog, I tried various topics, but the Java Persistence and Hibernate got the most traffic. Sinc…

I was approached by two "real" publishers asking me whether I want to publish my book with them. I had declined both of them as they only offered 10% royalty rates. I didn't have t…

I did't make 100k in one year. It took several years to get to this amount, but it didn't stop there either.

I manged to get some training engagements because someone in the company read the book and liked it. So, it can surely help you sell other services. However, this Twitter thread ai…

> If you're independently minded and want to break out of that world, stories like the OP's are nice to see. I was approached by recruiters asking me if I wanted to work for Google…

> Which I'm (maybe wrongly) going to assume the author doesn't. I'm not living in the US. I live in Romania. In Europe, salaries are not as high as the ones in California. But then…

> I’d say money should not be the main motivation to do it It depends on how you approach this investment. For me, a book is like any other product I make. It takes a certain amoun…

The book made more than 100k as it's still selling pretty well. In fact, the sales have increased over time, even if the book is now 5 years old. I keep on updating it and will rel…

I didn't expect much when I started. However, traffic grew over time, and I got to learn more about marketing, so in the end, it turned out to be a good investment.

Exactly.

That's true. My blog is thd front-end to every product or service that I'm selling. It's a very useful marketing tool.

No, that's not an issue at all. I have hundreds of articles on my blog that are also covered in the book: https://vladmihalcea.com/tutorials/hibernate/ But reading the book is easi…