Distributed Systems – Theory, Challenges and Trade-Offs
Distributed systems are all around us, Facebook, Uber, even the Google search engine. This text will show you how to work with them.
Scalability – What, How and Why We Fail
Scalability is probably one of the most crucial non-business features of every modern-day system and this text is a perfect intro to it.
CRDTs Explained: How Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types Work
The topic will be Conflict-free Replicated Data Types. Data structure designed to ensure that data on different replicas will eventually converge into a consistent state.
Modern Stack … And Maybe The Future
I will describe a modern stack for building robust and scalable systems. It is agnostic and can be integrated into all programming languages.
“Hello World” – Act not Overthink
Staying consistent against the odds and shortening the feedback loop is a way to thrive. Overthinking IS NOT.
Benchmarking Java Streams
Today, I would like to take a step forward and check how well Java Streams behave when put under pressure.
WebSockets vs SSE
In today’s text, I want to take a closer look at Server Sent Events (or SSE for short) and WebSockets. Both good and battle-tested approaches to data exchange. I will start with a short characteristic of both tools – what they are and what they offer. Then, I will compare them according to eight categories, … Read more
Monad vs Functor vs Applicative: Functional Containers Summary
In this text, the final summary of my categories theory series, I will use my spotlight and take a closer look at the relations between all three previously described functional containers, namely: Functor, Monad, and Applicative. Below, you will find a comparison of them in terms of: Theory Laws Methods Possibilities & Use Cases Theory … Read more
Secure Spring Boot 3 Application With Keycloak
Today, I would like to create a separate text with the same topic but for Spring Boot 3 and Keycloak.
gRPC vs REST: Comparing Approaches For Creating APIs
I want to take a closer look at gRPC and REST. Probably two of the most commonly used approaches for creating API nowadays.