Git: refusing to merge unrelated histories

Most recently, I found the following error during a git operation:

 
   $ git pull
   fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories

which led me to a hunt. I found out that since version 2.9.0, git has removed the ability to merge branches with unrelated histories (thanks for the obvious message Git). This change (and many others) can be found here.

Starting a Project: Data Generator

Sometimes, there is a need to generate data to test your code. While "testing in production" is a sweet spot to be, there are times when you need to "force" (stub) data that reflects certain business phenomena in production. This does not mean "chaos engineering" but rather a finite set that can be ingested into a suite of integration tests to increase confidence in code change.

Distributed Spring Integration

Recently, I was given an opportunity to code a use case that required the need to use EIP in a distributed environment. While trying to use the "Splitter" and "Aggregator" patterns, I had a chance to review the source code implementation of many of the components used to implement these using Spring Integration.