Shawn Hartsock

Principal, HartsockSolutions, LLC

Shawn Hartsock consults on Java technologies like Groovy/Grails and the Spring Framework providing expertise as an experienced Java developer and architect. Shawn discovered Groovy in 2007 and began working in Grails development for deployment to Java Enterprise environments and integration with Existing Java Enterprise software. He has contributed several Grails plugins to the Grails community and has had several articles published in Groovy Magazine on various topics including Enterprise Integration with Grails.

Blog

there's engineering and then there's social engineering

Posted Friday, May 4, 2012

Twitter is on the face of it such a simple application that it can be built in 40 minutes in Grails. For a consummate software engineer with state of the art tools, building a twitter in clone 40 minutes that can scalemore »

Beyond Finite State Automatons

Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Has someone moved computing beyond the Finite State Automaton in recent years? I'm unaware of anyone providing a system of computation that is in wide spread use that is not a Finite State Automaton. If someone has please let me knomore »

The answer is 5

Posted Friday, April 20, 2012

Many, many, years ago I got the chance to work with a highly seasoned developer. This guy had helped write tools like make. Yes kidmore »

Presentations

The Highly Monitored Grails Application

You don’t want to have your users tell you about application performance problems. You want to know about them before they do. more »

Performance Tuning Grails Applications

Your awesome application is getting such heavy use it's starting to slow down. Learn how to add rocket fuel to your rocket fuel! I’ll use examples from my real-world experiences working with Grails applications that have been sunk by heavy load and then tmore »

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