A Java Geek

BlockHound: how it works

Jun 20, 20215 min read

One of the talks in my current portfolio is Migrating from Imperative to Reactive. The talk is based on a demo migrating from Spring WebMVC to Spring WebFlux in a step-by-step approach. One of the steps involves installing BlockHound: it allows to ch...

The Rustlings exercises - part 1

Jun 13, 20215 min read

To continue building my understanding of Rust, I searched for some simple Rust exercises. Hence, I dedicated my weekly personal work time to the Rustling exercises. Greetings and welcome to rustlings. This project contains small exercises to get you...

My second cup of Rust

Jun 6, 20217 min read

Last week, I drank my first cup of Rust. I learned concepts that are foreign in the languages I know: ownership, borrowing and lifetimes. This week I want to drink the second cup and see where it leads me. Self-referencing types It's time to implemen...

My first cup of Rust

May 30, 202114 min read

It all started with an informal chat with my friend Anthony. We were talking about languages, and I said that I preferred compiled ones. He then went on to mention Rust. We admitted that we were too afraid to learn it because of its perceived complex...

Hacking third-party APIs on the JVM

May 23, 20219 min read

The JVM ecosystem is mature and offers plenty of libraries, so you don't need to reinvent the wheel. Basic - and not so basic - functionalities are just a dependency away. Sometimes, however, the dependency and your use-case are slightly misaligned. ...

Timely computation of derived values

May 16, 20213 min read

In my penultimate post, I described the use-case of an e-commerce shop. In general, interactions in such a shop are the following: You can browse a catalog of items Each item has a price tag You can put x items in your cart It's when the exciting p...