I used to ask interviewees, “What’s your favorite programming language?” The answer was nearly always, “I just choose the right language for the job.” Duh. Does anyone ever deliberately pick the wrong language? This was clearly a way to avoid actually nam…

It’s been about a decade since I last worked in Java and much has changed. I thought I’d brush up by re-reading Effective Java by Joshua Bloch which has since received a new edition. It was once my guiding star for Java. However, after an additional decad…

Command line interface for Meanscript. Contribute to Meanwhale/MeanscriptCLI development by creating an account on GitHub.

It’s been about a decade since I last worked in Java and much has changed. I thought I’d brush up by re-reading Effective Java by Joshua Bloch which has since received a new edition. It was once my guiding star for Java. However, after an additional decad…

AWS Lambda is an awesome Serverless implementation. Lambdas are a bit tricky because they are ephemeral and short-lived so either they call …

A Java app is not an obvious choice for a streaming media server, but for us it was the logical choice. With our distributed architecture, we expect roughly constant scaling at the app level and each individual app would only need to support a small numbe…

Java SPI is a standard java way to have binding between contracts and implementations. SPI used for several use cases such as Currency, Loca…

The perspective of an ignorant computer science undergrad…

Syntactic sugar (like the introduction of var) is often not enough to convince somebody (especially non-developer) to move forward. This is one of the reasons why Java 8, almost 7 years after its first release, is still widely used. However, many things h…