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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 →
I'm aware that for many of you these two concepts probably mean the same or maybe you'd struggle to explain the differences between them; however, they're actually two very different concepts and this is quite important to understand the way in which we process data nowadays. In both cases we try to solve a problem... Continue Reading →
After having had an introduction to the new concurrency paradigm in Java in my previous article "A new concurrency model in Java", I've considered that it'd be beneficial to show a more realistic and practical example with CompletableFuture. So what we're going to do is to implement a component responsible for fetching posts from different... Continue Reading →
In many of the projects I've worked during the recent years I've found quite hard to find developers using Java Optionals in the right way, so I thought it'd be good to show what in my opinion it should be the right approach. Background First of all, let's clarify what the original purpose was for... Continue Reading →
