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Software Engineering

In today's text, I want to take a closer look at Server Sent Events (or SSE for short) and WebSockets. Both are good and battle-tested...

Best JetBrains Plugins

JetBrains IDE-s based on the IntelliJ platform are probably one of the most common IDEs in existence nowadays. Their popularity is especially visible within the...

gRPC vs REST: Comparing Approaches For Creating APIs

In today's text I want to take a closer look at gRPC and REST. Probably two of the most commonly used approaches for creating API...

Java

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Benchmarking Java Streams

In my previous article, I took a closer look at the Java ExecutorService interface and its implementations, with some focus on the Fork/Join framework and...

Java Executors Overview

Concurrency is one of the most complex problems we (developers) can face in our daily work. Additionally, it is also one of the most common...

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...

Functional Containers

A in depth guide through the basic functional containers – Functors, Applicatives and Monads. I describe the theory behind them, their pros and cons, along their possible use cases.

Security & Keycloak

A comprehensive introduction into Keyclaok and application security. Starting from the basics on what is OIDC, I move to step by step tutorial on securing the Spring Boot REST API with Keycloak.