Reactive Programming in Java: Project Reactor vs. RxJava

Reactive programming has become a cornerstone of modern Java applications, especially in scenarios involving asynchronous data streams, high concurrency, and…

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Zuul 2 – Sample filter

Zuul 2 has finally been open sourced. I first heard of Zuul 2 during Spring One 2016 talk by Mikey…

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Reactive GWT

Introduction Reactive programming’s popularity has tremendously grown over the last 4 or 5 years. This can tell us that the…

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Android Studio 3.0 – Initial Impressions of Tool Support

I have been using Android Studio 3.0 since since the alpha versions, and it is good to see it finally…

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Idiomatic concurrency: flatMap() vs. parallel() – RxJava FAQ

Simple, effective and safe concurrency was one of the design principles of RxJava. Yet, ironically, it’s probably one of the…

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Detecting and testing stalled streams – RxJava FAQ

Imagine you have a stream that publishes events with unpredictable frequency. Sometimes you can expect dozens of messages per second,…

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Fixed-rate vs. fixed-delay – RxJava FAQ

If you are using plain Java, since version 5 we have a handy scheduler class that allows running tasks at…

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Streaming large JSON file with Jackson – RxJava FAQ

In the previous article, we learned how to parse excessively large XML files and turn them into RxJava streams. This time let’s…

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Loading files with backpressure – RxJava FAQ

Processing file as a stream turns out to be tremendously effective and convenient. Many people seem to forget that since…

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