Reading Time: 3 minutes Hi everyone! Almost a month back I wrote a blog on Message Queue and there I told you that soon I’ll start writing about Simple Queue Service. For a basic understanding of Message Queues, you can have a look here. Talking about Simple Queue Service, it’s a service provided by AWS, and in short, just known as SQS. What is Simple Queue Service? AWS SQS Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes What if you have a service having heavyweight processing requests? Or maybe it has a very spiky workload? There could be multiple ways of handling that. And one of those could be using a message queue. So here in this blog, I’ll be summarizing the message queue for you. I will be covering what and why of it today and in the next blog you Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hey everyone, recently in my project, a need arises where I have to run an external command. In my code on a specific request, I wanted to start a node process. This made me ponder about “How to Execute Commands in Scala?”. 🤔 And I found something useful in Scala Library, so here I’m sharing what I learnt. Process in Scala There is a process Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes While exploring Cats I learned about Monads and its different instances available for use and now I’m here sharing all of that with you all. 😊 In today’s blog, we will be exploring Eval Monad in Cats. Model of Evaluation From the model of evaluation, I am referring to the way that the value will be evaluated. Generally, we have two of them i.e. Eager Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today we are going to explore Id Monad in Cats. If you don’t know about Monad I’ll suggest you go through this blog and then read this for better understanding. What is Id Monad? According to the referenced book: Id is actually a type alias that turns an atomic type into a single-parameter type constructor. Ahan! So, did you understand something? Let me explain it Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hey everyone, I’m back with another blog in which we are going to explore Either in Cats Library. For an introduction to Either Monad in Cats and comparison between Either in standard Scala Library and Cats Library, you can have a look at my previous blog i.e Either in Cats vs Either in Scala. Also, if you don’t know what is a Monad you can Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hola amigos! Last time I discussed Monads in general and in Cats as well. In this blog, let’s have a look at one of the most known monad Either. I’ll be giving an introduction to it and also there will be a comparison between two i.e Either in Cats vs Either in Scala. What is Either? Either basically represents a value of one of two Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hi everyone, recently I started exploring Cats library in Scala and so here I’m presenting you the first session on “Introduction to Cats”. It will give you a head start in Cats. Let me give you a brief description as well. What is Functional Programming? Functional programming (FP) is a style of software development emphasizing functions that don’t depend on program state. Functional code is Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes In Scala, we all have heard about Option, Future etc. I also heard that they are Monads. It was a new term to me so I googled it and the definitions I initially read were too confusing. Here is one of them : What is Monoid? What are Endofunctors? Looking into all these is so complex. So here, I’ll try to cover Monads in a Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hey everyone, I’m back with another blog, “Combating Fallacy in Scala: Part 3“. So, in this blog, we will have a look into Classes in Scala and the Constructor Parameters. Class and Constructor Parameters Before moving to the problem in this blog, let’s have a look at classes in Scala. According to the Scala Docs “Classes in Scala are blueprints for creating objects. They can Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hey everyone, in today’s blog I will be covering the concept of Circuit Breaker in Akka. Before moving forward to it just think of a situation when you are requesting on a website and it is taking too much time. You try to refresh the page and still the same. Would you like to use that website again? I think the answer will be no. Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Welcome back to this amazing series of Combating Fallacy in Scala: Part 2. For this part, the topic will be “Tuple Unpacking”. So, let’s move forward. Tuple Unpacking Before looking into this, let’s have a look at Tuple in Scala. According to the Scala Docs “A tuple is a neat class that gives you a simple way to store heterogeneous (different) items in the same container.“ A tuple provides Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hi everyone, I am going to start a blog series related to Scala. This is going to be a bit different as it focuses on things such as some mistakes that we usually do, unknowingly or some concepts that we might not know. So this series is all about exploring Scala and Combating Fallacy in Scala. if you want to be a part then stay Continue Reading
