Getting Notified About RabbitMQ Cluster Partitioning
If you are running RabbitMQ in a cluster, it is not unlikely that the cluster gets partitioned (part of the cluster losing connection to the rest). The basic commands toContinue reading
A Non-Blocking Benchmark
A couple of weeks ago I asked the question “Why non-blocking?”. And I didn’t reach a definitive answer, although it seemed that writing non-blocking code is not the better optionContinue reading
How to Land a Software Engineering Job?
The other day I read this piece by David Byttow on “How to land an engineering job”. And I don’t fully agree with his assertions. I do agree, of course,Continue reading
Why Non-Blocking?
I’ve been writing non-blocking, asynchronous code for the past year. Learning how it works and how to write it is not hard. Where are the benefits coming from is whatContinue reading
My Development Setup
I think I may have a pretty non-standard development setup (even for a Java-and-Scala developer). I use Windows, which I guess almost no “real” developer does. I’ve tried Linux (Ubuntu)Continue reading
Do It Either Way, We’ll Refactor It Later
It often happens that a new piece of functionality is discussed within a team and different developers have a different preference over how it should be implemented. “But what ifContinue reading
Time Zone Use Cases
Time zones are a tricky thing. Jon Skeet gives a pretty good overview of the horrors (at 20:10). But besides the inherent complexity of having timezones and DSTs in theContinue reading
I Am Not Allowed to Post My Content on Reddit
I’ve once been ninja-banned (I can still post and comment, but nobody else sees it) on reddit (/r/programming, more precisely), and recently my submissions (from this blog) that got toContinue reading
The Internet Is Pseudo-Decentralized
We mostly view the internet as something decentralized and resilient. And from practical point of view, it almost is. The Web is decentralized – websites reside on many different serversContinue reading
My Most Frequent Code Review Comment
The title implies one prerequisite – you must have code reviews for every piece of code written. For that, FogCreek recently published a list of best practices for code reviews.Continue reading