Tag Archives: Best Practices

Scala Trait and Mixin – Points to Remember

Posted on March 26, 2017 by Harmeet Singh(Taara)

Trait can be viewed not only as interfaces in other languages, but also as classes with only parameterless constructor. Whenever there is some code in trait, the trait is called mixin. trait Alarm { def trigger(): String } In scala … Continue reading →

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Partition-Aware Data Loading in Spark SQL

Posted on February 9, 2017 by Himanshu Gupta

Data loading, in Spark SQL, means loading data in memory/cache of Spark worker nodes. For which we use to write following code: val connectionProperties = new Properties() connectionProperties.put(“user”, “username”) connectionProperties.put(“password”, “password”) val jdbcDF = spark.read .jdbc(“jdbc:postgresql:dbserver”, “schema.table”, connectionProperties) In here we are … Continue reading →

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And you thought you were doing Microservices

Posted on May 8, 2016 by Vikas Hazrati

If you have been in the software industry for some time you would have heard things like. Yes we do Scrum but …we do not have timeboxed sprints. Yes, we write automated user acceptance tests but … as a part … Continue reading →

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Expression Oriented Programming

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Vikas Hazrati

In a conversation with one of the lead architects of a large publishing company, we were discussing around the coding standards and suddenly the term EOP brought the discussion to a standstill. Ok, just for a few seconds. Once I … Continue reading →

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Fundamentals of eXtreme Programming

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Himanshu Gupta

The term Extreme Programming (XP) was coined by Kent Beck, in late 1990s. The purpose behind inventing XP was to find a way to deliver high quality software, developed by small teams, and to keep up with the changing requirements of customer. … Continue reading →