Why I started learning Emacs in 2016

Why learn another editor in the first place? The main role of a good editor is to not get into…

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Event sourcing + free monads = free sourcing?

I recently wrote about Event Sourcing and Free Monads. The natural next step is combining the two! How would a…

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In today’s post-OO world, is dependency injection still relevant?

It’s 2015. Most of the new popular languages are more or less functional. The old ones, like Java, gain functional…

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Clustering reactmq with akka-cluster

In the last two posts on reactmq, I described how to write a reactive, persistent message queue. The queue has…

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Making the Reactive Queue durable with Akka Persistence

Some time ago I wrote how to implement a reactive message queue with Akka Streams. The queue supports streaming send…

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Evaluating persistent, replicated message queues

Message queues are useful in a number of situations; for example when we want to execute a task asynchronously, we…

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Benchmarking SQS

SQS, Simple Message Queue, is a message-queue-as-a-service offering from Amazon Web Services. It supports only a handful of messaging operations,…

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Cluster-wide Java/Scala application deployments with Docker, Chef and Amazon OpsWorks

Docker is great for running isolated containers on a single node. However, most software systems run on multiple nodes, so…

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Reactive Queue with Akka Reactive Streams

Reactive streams is a recently announced initiative to create a standard for asynchronous stream processing with built-in back-pressure, on the…

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