Reading Time: 3 minutes It goes without saying that testing code is essential, if you don’t want to have buggy code in production, but how can you test code that queries a database? One solution is an in-memory database, and a common in-memory database is H2. Here is some code that queries a database. More specifically the method getNumDistinctInColumn returns the number of distinct values in a specified column Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Akka is a powerful actor based tool kit for Concurrency, Parallelism and Clustering. But for every concurrent applications, Akka actors are not fit because Futures are another alternative for performing Concurrency. Most of the developers follow simple rules for using Future and Actors is “Futures for Concurrency, Actors for State“. In concurrent applications most of the time we are facing race conditions and deadlocks. Because Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes Is your test suite taking a large amount of time to run just because your methods need some database queries to be handled? Testing with In-memory databases can save a hell lot of time. In-memory database makes the queries readily available to methods in a matter of milliseconds. In case you are using mongoDB, this blog can help you run your test suite much faster Continue Reading
