A reactive and performant Spray + Akka solution to “Playing with concurrency and performance in Java and Node.js”

In my previous post I examined a fictitious trading engine and compared a Java based blocking solution to a Node.js…

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The effects of programming with Java 8 Streams on algorithm performance

Multi-paradigm programming with Java has been possible for many years, with its support for a mix of service oriented, object…

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Non-Blocking Asynchronous Java 8 and Scala’s Try/Success/Failure

Inspired by a recent newsletter from Heinz Kabutz as well as Scala’s Futures which I investigated in my recent book,…

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Play 2.0 framework and XA transactions

XA transactions are useful and out of the box, Play 2.0 today does not have support for them. Here I…

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Hacking Maven

We don’t use M2Eclipse to integrate Maven and Eclipse, partly because we had some bad experiences a couple of years…

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