I am Devon Hillard
I am a technologist and entrepreneur. I have specialized in ATG/Oracle eCommerce for the last 23 years, and am a Java/J2EE Architect. I am one of three founders of Spark::red a premium ATG Managed Hosting provider (now part of the Pivotree family). Eleven years ago we were three guys in a coffee shop, we grew to well over 30 people and host sites for the Fortune 1000. I also created 10MinuteMail, a simple and secure temporary e-mail provider which gets about 3.5 million page views a month. I recently started Black Magic Consulting to enable me to help companies, large and small, with improving efficiency and automation via technology. I also have several other projects in the very early stages, so stay tuned!
Recent Posts:
Micronaut, GraalVM, Native, AWS Lambda, and Apple Silicon M1!
I've just started looking at Micronaut and GraalVM Native. As a long time Java developer and architect, I'd love to be able to leverage my Java expertise, in a Serverless architecture. While Lambda's do [...]
A framework for building Shopify Apps using Java Spring Boot
It's time to celebrate! As you may have seen, we've been asking Can You Build A Shopify App Using Java Spring Boot? And also posted a helpful guide about how to handle Shopify Embedded App [...]
3 Reasons I’m Switching from Eclipse to VSCode as a Java Developer
I have been writing Java code for 22 years, mostly server-side web applications. I started using Eclipse as my primary IDE in 2003, 18 years ago. Since then I've used Eclipse, or MyEclipse, if [...]
Jump Start Your App With A Spring User Management App
Many of the web applications I build require user management. Registration, Login, that sort of thing. Implementing that properly always takes more time than I expect. So I've written a flexible, easily configurable, User [...]