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One of the most annoying aspects in writing code in Java is dealing with null elements. Having to place null check conditions everywhere just to make our code null-safe is something that probably most of us have suffered quite often. Kotlin provides different mechanisms to help solve this problem. Let's go through them first. Non-Nullable... Continue Reading →
One of the most common challenges that we software engineers have sometimes is how to ensure that only one component in our distributed application is doing a certain computation at a time. For example, let's say we are running three nodes in our application and we need to run a scheduled job daily. How can... Continue Reading →
In this article we're going to go through one of the most common problems in exception handling in any JVM-language and what alternative can we use to achieve a clearer, cleaner and more maintainable code in terms of error handling. Introduction In these recent few decades where we have seen a boom in the programming... Continue Reading →
Companies looking to take advantage of emerging tech are willing to offer some of the best perks on the job market to top developers. Generous salaries, health benefits, pension plans, and higher-than-average holiday allowances are all commonplace for powerful coders.However, in order to secure these roles, coders must be agile, fluent and demonstrate an ability to... Continue Reading →
This article was originally published at https://bell-sw.com/announcements/2020/11/16/An-intelligent-bet-for-Kotlin-part-one/ If you’re a Software Developer or any kind of professional working in the IT sector, you’ve probably heard of Kotlin language. Kotlin language has been gaining a lot of traction and popularity among developers in the industry in the last four years. Among its benefits, its supporters enumerate... Continue Reading →
There's always been a considerable level of criticism against Java from a big sector of our industry; this criticism has been mostly focused on Java's verbosity and the amount of boilerplate code it generates in many cases without need. Although I've always liked Java, I couldn't say that these allegations are wrong; it's indeed true... Continue Reading →
One of the most interesting features introduced with Java Streams is the ability of grouping collections easily by using the groupingBy collector.Although in some cases it could be pretty straightforward, there are different combinations of groupingBy and some of them are not so obvious to understand for many developers, so that's why I've decided that... Continue Reading →
We are all well aware of all the fancy new features that JDK 8 brought to us and probably it's hard to find a Java developer that doesn't know what Java Streams, Lambdas or CompletableFutures are. So all these nice features came a few years back with JDK 8, but what happened a bit earlier... Continue Reading →
Multiple times many of you might have wondered what makes someone a good Software Engineer; in most of the cases there's a tendency to think that having an intelligence way above the average is the only way to be a good Software Engineer.I'll tell you one thing: that's totally wrong! I've been in this sector... Continue Reading →
Recently we started a journey through functional programming in Java with my articles "A new functional Java style" and "Mastering the new functional Java". Now that we have a basic understanding about functional programming and what Java brings to us, I think it's time to see how we can apply this to improve our existing... Continue Reading →
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