Software Engineering Intern Lessons

Use the correct bucket name

Your VM is out of space? Logs are probably the culprit

Corollary to #27: add logbook in addition to log4j and log4j2 for even more mindfuckery

Having log4j and log4j2 in the same project is complete mindfuck

Don’t change API endpoints without telling others

Corollary to #24: if things with kafka still don’t work, kafka_2.11 might be hiding in your maven dependency graph

will break your Kafka consumer (use kafka_2.10 instead)

Don’t do “storm kill” without specifying a topology name on terminal...it’ll stop *all* your topologies

You can’t import a class from the default package

In Swagger spec: it’s “integer” not “int”

./script.sh won’t work if script.sh is not an executable

Always stereotype your code (when using dependency injection)

You forgot to check for null, didn’t you

When launching a storm topology, use the right launcher host

When publishing a snapshot artifact, be sure to add “-SNAPSHOT”

Use the correct path when referencing protobuf compiler in maven

Corollary to #13: Do you see the word “butt” a lot in Chrome? You probably left your computer unlocked again