Blog Posts

• 03 Oct 2018 » Poor support for ZIO in Intellj
• 30 Jan 2017 » Circuit Breaker is an anti-pattern
• 22 Jan 2017 » Shapeless Guide
• 26 Nov 2016 » Framing and decoding with Akka Streams
• 25 Nov 2016 » Reconnecting akka client
• 24 Nov 2016 » Read-only TCP client in Akka Streams
• 21 Jul 2016 » Lack of fate-sharing complicates distributed systems
• 26 Jun 2016 » Misunderstanding actors
• 10 May 2016 » The multiple platforms for Scala
• 24 Apr 2016 » Apache Spark Streaming backpressure
• 04 Feb 2016 » 100 fold speedup using Akka Streams
• 17 Jan 2016 » isMounted deprecation
• 07 Dec 2015 » javaslang - FP for Java
• 01 Nov 2015 » Absolute file reference for SBT assembly
• 03 Oct 2015 » Mixing Scala and Java lambdas
• 16 Aug 2015 » Writing non trivial Scala domain model as Json using Play framework
• 15 Aug 2015 » Woes generating Json with Scala
• 08 Aug 2015 » Using functional interfaces for logging DI
• 27 Jul 2015 » Scala curiosity using multiple inheritance
• 21 Jul 2015 » Misuse of AsynchronousSocketChannel
• 20 Jul 2015 » Last Writer Wins
• 14 Jun 2015 » Using Akka CircuitBreaker with Akka Reactive Streams
• 13 Jun 2015 » Unfortunate consequence of the movement to ebooks
• 07 Jun 2015 » Reactive stream back pressure and circuit breakers
• 03 Jun 2015 » Wrong kind of Seq
• 30 May 2015 » Kafka and Cassandra costs for a multi data center deployment
• 30 May 2015 » Injecting pigs into Kafka
• 28 May 2015 » Avoiding the RDF word
• 16 May 2015 » ADSB broadcast rollup using Cassandra
• 16 May 2015 » Resource leak when using case classes with Spark UpdateStateByKey
• 03 May 2015 » Understanding TCP behavior for Reactive Streams
• 25 Apr 2015 » A surprise from Spark streaming checkpoint directory
• 03 Mar 2015 » Streaming data via fuse-jna
• 02 Mar 2015 » Serialization of Scala value classes
• 17 Feb 2015 » Implementing actors in shell scripts using self-pipe
• 16 Feb 2015 » Composing scodec-bit hex representation
• 07 Feb 2015 » Using reactive extensions as a test tool
• 21 Jan 2015 » Akka Camel Consumer integration with Spark Streaming
• 21 Jan 2015 » Survey of Akka integration with Spark
• 19 Jan 2015 » Spark SQL against streaming data in memory
• 14 Jan 2015 » Actor CLI implementation
• 14 Jan 2015 » Simple Pattern Matching Command Parser
• 11 Jan 2015 » Simple Akka Stream and Camel integration
• 21 Dec 2014 » Running the rx-flux examples
• 17 Dec 2014 » IEEE Software and SOA misconceptions
• 17 Dec 2014 » Practical usage of FP concepts
• 27 Oct 2014 » Replacing phantom types with implicit evidence
• 27 Oct 2014 » Reconsidering the cake pattern
• 26 Oct 2014 » Are Scala phantom types really useful?
• 09 Oct 2014 » React.js at one kilohertz
• 14 Sep 2014 » Padding in scodec
• 14 Sep 2014 » Checksum added to scodec
• 06 Sep 2014 » The Fletcher checksum and scodec
• 06 Sep 2014 » Monads and 'The curse of the excluded middle'
• 06 Sep 2014 » The crippled codec
• 12 Jul 2014 » Understanding akka quarantine
• 10 Jul 2014 » Recovery from cluster partition
• 05 Jul 2014 » React vs Swing
• 29 Jun 2014 » React.js component lookup
• 29 Jun 2014 » Enriching POJO JSON
• 16 Jun 2014 » Exercising Akka via blockade and docker
• 15 Jun 2014 » Setting up docker 1.0 for blockade
• 01 Jun 2014 » flow library raises API question
• 17 May 2014 » Surprising apache httpclient authentication behavior
• 04 May 2014 » Data Communication Protocol implementation using Scala - Reader
• 04 May 2014 » Data Communication Protocol implementation using Scala - Control Characters
• 04 May 2014 » Data Communication Protocol implementation using Scala - Parity
• 04 May 2014 » Data Communication Protocol implementation using Scala - Background
• 20 Apr 2014 » Akka reactive streams subscriber
• 11 Apr 2014 » React.js controlled text
• 11 Feb 2014 » Trival HTTP implementation using RxJava and Camel
• 08 Feb 2014 » Stream I/O in RxJava
• 06 Feb 2014 » Baudot conversion using RxJava
• 26 Jan 2014 » Switched to Jekyll!
• 26 Jan 2014 » Working around Scala parser memory leak.
• 13 Oct 2013 » Datomic txReport and tracking changes via Datomisca queries
• 13 Oct 2013 » annotate Datomic transaction to record side effect
• 12 Oct 2013 » Unexpected attribute handling when querying datomic txReport
• 07 Oct 2013 » datomic history
• 06 Oct 2013 » Query datoms via transaction id fails due to full scan error
• 17 Aug 2013 » Type providing from SQL provides excellent justification for Scala macros
• 17 Aug 2013 » Some concerns with akka.js
• 31 Jul 2013 » Play as an ESB
• 24 Jul 2013 » scalaz contrib and Futures
• 13 Jul 2013 » Defaulting type with Scala implicits
• 02 Feb 2013 » Akka IO using byte[]
• 13 Jan 2013 » LMAX Disruptor and h.264 processing
• 09 Dec 2012 » Play2 websocket performance
• 11 Nov 2012 » Server Sent Events and Akka IO performance
• 10 Nov 2012 » Akka HTTP Server example
• 20 Oct 2012 » Play 2 Server Sent Events and Ajax performance
• 13 Sep 2012 » Java 7u6 String performance regression
• 29 Aug 2012 » Unusual java httpserver race condition
• 21 Aug 2012 » Performance surprising with Scala regexp parser combinators
• 25 Jul 2012 » dispatch rebooted with yet another futures implementation
• 14 Apr 2012 » Legal consequences of map-reduce,shards and distributed hash table systems
• 08 Apr 2012 » Angular, SSE and modifying a list model
• 08 Apr 2012 » Angular.js and Server Sent Events wiring
• 04 Apr 2012 » The future and promise of Scala is it's killer app
• 28 Mar 2012 » Resolved the ()=>Unit surprise
• 27 Mar 2012 » Surprises with call-by-name and unary functions
• 10 Mar 2012 » Akka system IO client
• 28 Feb 2012 » Data enrichment "forward" in Akka actor
• 25 Feb 2012 » Testing akka system IO
• 23 Feb 2012 » SImpler akka io example
• 18 Feb 2012 » Akka dataflow example
• 13 Feb 2012 » Play 2 expands the reach of Future based implementations
• 05 Feb 2012 » Making mutable Java fit the workflow
• 05 Feb 2012 » Adding typing to Monitor
• 28 Jan 2012 » The future of Futures in Scala
• 28 Jan 2012 » Integrating Futures with the real world
• 17 Jan 2012 » Unit testing Akka future based choreography
• 16 Jan 2012 » Choreography using Akka Futures
• 11 Jan 2012 » Surprising initialization of abstract Scala vals
• 16 Oct 2011 » Parallel tests in sbt and specs
• 11 Oct 2011 » Hot deploy for Jetty 7.1
• 09 Oct 2011 » heroku and intellectual property exposure
• 06 Aug 2011 » Surprising difference between Shtml ajaxButton and Shtml ajaxCheckbox
• 24 Jul 2011 » Exhaustive Scala Enum
• 04 Jul 2011 » Controlling jquery tab plugin add
• 04 Jun 2011 » Performance feasibility of "Real time" display via comet
• 11 May 2011 » Seeing noSQL as a dual of SQL
• 08 May 2011 » Liquid mandates 100% per week staff turnover
• 08 May 2011 » John Harrison does not fit IBM's Liquid crowd sourced software development
• 08 May 2011 » Further observations on IBM's Liquid
• 05 Apr 2011 » Source code on github
• 04 Apr 2011 » Outlining the flow implementation infrastructure
• 03 Apr 2011 » Implementing Lookup
• 28 Mar 2011 » Recursive PartialFunctions for Choreography
• 27 Mar 2011 » Contemplating an Akka choreography implementation
• 07 Dec 2010 » akka, camel and UuidGenerator surprises
• 09 Sep 2010 » Attempting to resolve the XPathFunction and Scala int problem
• 07 Sep 2010 » Scala implicits to simplify XPathFunction
• 06 Sep 2010 » The magic of Scala type inferencing
• 06 Sep 2010 » How not to extend Scala XML
• 06 Sep 2010 » A change in typing philosophy, indicated by Scala type classes
• 02 Sep 2010 » Converting Scala XML into SAX events
• 29 Aug 2010 » Scala XMLLoader as ContentHandler
• 22 Aug 2010 » Using akka with SBT and Scala 2.8.0
• 02 Aug 2010 » Notes document is primitive compared to CouchDB JSON document
• 01 Aug 2010 » The invoice address quandary
• 01 Aug 2010 » Hello world!
• 31 Jul 2010 » Couchdb thoughts from Dallas Techfest