I’m the CTO at Faraday, where we do a lot of hard programming. I’ve been looking resumes of current and recently graduated students from really good universities like Middlebury and also scanning the current syllabus of COS 333 Advanced Programming Techni... (more…)

Last week, I described a use-case for a custom Stream Collector. I received a intriguing comment on Twitter: Interesting article. For completness' sake this specific problem could also be solved using the standard teeing collector— Miguel Martins (@Miguuc... (more…)

The Vector API enables developers to express data parallel computation, leveraging SIMD hardware on Intel and ARM CPUs. The API was introduced as an incubati... (more…)

picturesafe-search is an open source Java wrapper for Elasticsearch, implementing an opinionated, fresh approach to implement new search/analytics enabled applications or enhance legacy software ba... (more…)

Modern software systems rely on a multitude of third-party dependencies. This large-scale code reuse reduces development costs and time, and it poses new challenges with respect to maintenance and security. Techniques such as tree shaking or shading can r... (more…)