Basics of Streams In Java8

Neelu AggarwalFebruary 20, 2019February 20, 2019JavaBasics of stream, Java 8

Streams are introduced in java 8. It is defined in java.util.stream package. A stream is sequence of objects which supports various methods. That can be pipelined to produce the result. Features of Stream Stream is not a data structure. It takes input from various sources (like array, collection, data structure) performs an operation and gives output. It does not store element. It does not change Continue Reading

Maven Simplified

Yatharth SharmaFebruary 15, 2019February 20, 2019Java, Tech Blogs, Tutorial#java, build tools, maven, maven life cycle

This blog will provide you with the basics of maven, its importance and its life cycle. For installation, you can refer here and then continue with this blog. Why a Build tool? Initially, while learning and developing small projects, we compile limited classes and include specific JAR libraries on our own which are required to build our project. This seems very difficult in large projects Continue Reading

Are you still using `println` in Rust for debugging?

Ayush MishraFebruary 11, 2019February 11, 2019Java, Rust, ScalaRust, rustfmt

Printing to standard output is a good way to trace through your code and troubleshoot potential problems. While coding, many programmers use a lot of println statements to see what is going on at different levels in their code. If you are from Java background, you would have used System.out.println() and System.err.println() methods. If you are from Scala background, you would have used println. As Continue Reading

StringUtils – Apache common Lang3

Bhawna SharmaJanuary 22, 2019February 1, 2019Java#java, #nullpointer, #StringUtils

In this blog, we will learn about the StringUtils class. It provides some nice utilities that deal with Strings as compare to java.lang.String. Before discussing its methods, let’s see one example. Movie movie = new Movie() String name = movie.getName(); if(name.isEmpty()){ } what if the movie’s name is Null. 🤔 Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NullPointerException Then definitely it will throw a Null Pointer Exception. Yes, Continue Reading

Microservices and the Saga Pattern

Prashant SharmaJanuary 9, 2019January 29, 2019Architecture, Java, Lagom, Microservices, Reactive Application, ScalaDistributed-Messaging-Patterns, Lagom Architecture, Messaging Patterns, Microservices, Reactive, Saga's

Microservices have become a crucial part of any enterprise these days, no matter if it is a big or a small enterprise. When something this big is present in the market why not see some fundamentals of the same? So here we’ll go through the concepts like what is a microservice and Saga Patterns that an ideal microservice should have.

Is Apache Flink the future of Real-time Streaming?

Anmol SarnaDecember 28, 2018Apache Flink, Flink, Java, Scala, Streaming, Streaming SolutionsFlink Streaming, scala, Spark Streaming, Streaming

In our last blog, we had a discussion about the latest version of Spark i.e 2.4 and the new features that it has come up with. While trying to come up with various approaches to improve our performance, we got the chance to explore one of the major contenders in the race, Apache Flink. Apache Flink is an open source platform which is a streaming Continue Reading

Apache Spark 2.4: Adding a little more Spark to your code

Anmol SarnaDecember 16, 2018Apache Spark, Java, Scala, Spark, StreamingApache Spark, avro, higher order function, scala, spark 2.4

Continuing with the objectives to make Spark faster, easier, and smarter, Apache Spark recently released its fifth release in the 2.x version line i.e Spark 2.4. We were lucky enough to experiment with it so soon in one of our projects. Today we will try to highlight the major changes in this version that we explored as well as experienced in our project. In our Continue Reading

A Beginner’s Guide to Deploying a Lagom Microservice on Kubernetes

Himanshu GuptaDecember 5, 2018Java, Lagom, Reactive Programming, Scalakubernetes, minikube

Both Lagom and Kubernetes are gaining popularity quite fast. Lagom is an open source framework for building reactive microservice systems in Java/Scala. And, Kubernetes (or K8s in short) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Together they make an excellent stack for developing Reactive microservices of production grade. We have already seen a lot of blogs on Lagom on this Continue Reading

Introduction To Katalon Studio

Abhishek BaranwalNovember 25, 2018December 5, 2018Java, Testing, Web

Once a wise man said, “A product that cannot be tested is flawed”.It also applicable in software development as well, Let me re-figure it – “A software that cannot be tested is flawed”. The testing of software acts as an important role in every software development approach, it improves the quality and value of the software against the client. In an era of automation, I’m introducing Continue Reading

Akka Streams: Is it a Solution to Your Streaming Problems?

Anmol SarnaOctober 16, 2018October 16, 2018Akka, akka-streams, Java, Scala, Streaming, Streaming SolutionsAkka actor, akka-streaming, broadcasting, Data Flow Graphs, scala, Streams

A few days earlier, in our project, we were using Spark streaming and initially, it worked like a charm. But as we were very close to completion of our use case, the unexpected occurred. Spark does have a lot of interesting features, but we had some more custom needs such as running a ton of varying jobs with different actors/flows. Also, we needed something which Continue Reading

Mocking static methods with PowerMock

Vinisha SharmaOctober 10, 2018Java, Quality Assessment (QA), ScalaMocking, Mockito, technology, Unit Testing

A good developer always writes a unit test case for his/her code. While writing test cases, we came across various types of scenarios, including the one where we need to mock static methods. One of the common examples of such scenario is where our service is using some static methods from a third party library. Here, one way to deal is to have an adapter Continue Reading

Spark Unconstructed | Deep dive into DAG

RamandeepAugust 23, 2018Apache Spark, cluster, Java, Scala, Tech BlogsDirected Acyclic Graph, Spark Internals, What is DAG?

Apache Spark is all the rage these days. People who work with Big Data, Spark is a household name for them. We have been using it for quite some time now. So we already know that Spark is lightning-fast cluster computing technology, it is faster than Hadoop MapReduce. If you ask any of these Spark techies, how Spark is fast, they would give you a Continue Reading

Is Apache Cassandra really the Database you need?

Anmol SarnaAugust 17, 2018Big Data and Fast Data, Cassandra, Database, Java, NoSql, ScalaAdvantages of Cassandra, apache cassandra, Big Data, Disadvantages of Cassandra, NoSql Database, Trade Offs in Cassandra, Use cases of Cassandra

Welcome back, everyone. It has been quite some time since I have been working with Cassandra. To be honest, it is a quite cool database. Its decentralized nature, as well as its ability to handle such a large volume of writes, is really commendable. But as we know nothing is perfect. So is the Cassandra Database. What I mean by this is that you cannot Continue Reading

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