• Mocking a sqs queue

  The latest challenge the team got came with interesting problems to solve and new tech to explore. Integrate data from an event queue populated by an external party was one of them.

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• About the actor model

  These last few weeks I’ve been working in a project that uses Akka to implement an actor model. I’ve investigated a bit about it and these post tries to put into words what I’ve learned and present some thoughts and questions about it.

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• Annotations everywhere

  Lately my team have been working with some Java projects that have been handed of to us. The majority of them are relatively small and simple, others not so much, but all use Spring, SpringBoot and a couple of other relatively common dependencies that usually come with it like JPA or spring-security.

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• Don't mess with the backing store

  Parallel code is hard. When we start messing with parallelism we better be prepared to deal with another level of complexity. It is not transparent to the reader how the code behaves when running in a multi-thread environment, what are the moving parts and what changes can cause inconsistencies.

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• Rserve to the rescue!

  Last week I participated in a two day hackaton. It was a cool initiative that gave me an opportunity to work with people from different areas and with technology I am not familiar with.

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• A race condition during authentication

  Recently one of our applications needed to be integrated with a central authentication service. This application was built with Spring Boot, so we decided to implement this functionality using the Spring Security library that was already being imported anyway.

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