vladmihalcea

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Twelve Years of Blogging(vladmihalcea.com)
4 points by vladmihalcea 1y ago|1 comments
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by vladmihalcea 1y ago
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 career.
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MySQL Query Optimization with Releem(vladmihalcea.com)
5 points by vladmihalcea 1y ago|0 comments
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Shopify modular monolith scaled to 30 TB per minute during Cyber Monday
59 points by vladmihalcea 5y ago|11 comments
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How to create a tech startup – a real-life story(vladmihalcea.com)
2 points by vladmihalcea 5y ago|0 comments
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by vladmihalcea 5y ago
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 successfully for so long, I wrote a best-seller about how
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60 years of COBOL – past, present, and future(vladmihalcea.com)
3 points by vladmihalcea 6y ago|0 comments
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
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 book, you need to do way more than just writing the book. Y
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
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 Business plan so I can better customize the website. https:&
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
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 considering that my book is mostly about Java Persistence and Hiber
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
I'm using Grammarly to correct my spelling mistakes. It also provides tips about phrasing.
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
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. Since I liked the topic, I decided to write a book abo
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
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 to pay for editing. I did everything myself: w
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
I did't make 100k in one year. It took several years to get to this amount, but it didn't stop there either.
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
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 aimed to point out that a book can also make good money, not j
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
> 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 in Zurich. I had to decline them. I'm hap
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
> 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, even in the US, the Silicon Valley salar
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
> 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 amount of resources to produce and launch it, and it should ge
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
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 release a second edition soon. The marketing effort is not
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
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.
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
Exactly.
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
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.
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
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 easier than browsing the article
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
That's where my blog, https://vladmihalcea.com/blog/ or my StackOverflow answer, https://stackoverflow.com/users/1025118/vlad-mihalcea come into play. Most of my readers get to know me f
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
Thanks
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
Thanks. I pre-launched it in November 2015 and launched the final version in October 2016. By 2019, I had managed to sell over 5000 copies and make over 100k. I'm thinking of releasing a second edition in 2021 or 2022.
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by vladmihalcea 6y ago
I'm the book author, so if you have any questions, let me know.
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by vladmihalcea 8y ago
Most ORM-related problems are related to lack of knowledge of how the tool works. However, if you understand how databases work, how to tune the driver and how to get the ORM tool to generate the same queries you'd otherwise write your
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2 best tools that can help you solve ANY software development problem(vladmihalcea.com)
2 points by vladmihalcea 10y ago|0 comments
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How does a relational database work(vladmihalcea.com)
4 points by vladmihalcea 10y ago|0 comments

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