Meetup: Apache Spark
Every last friday of the month we organise an internal meetup at Sourcelabs. Normally we will pick one subject and dive in to it together. But since a lot of …
Meetup: Blockchain
Blockchain, a buzz word that everyone has heard of these days, often mentioned alongside with the best known cryptocurrency: Bitcoin. But how much do we actually know about blockchain? Do …
Talking Kotlin podcast: interview with Roman Elizarov
There is a really interesting interview with Roman Elizarov, the language lead for Kotlin, on the Kotlin by JetBrains YouTube channel. Being a library developer in the past, Roman explains …
Meetup: Java 16
Sourcelabs is a company specializing in building software for the JVM, at the moment we mostly use Kotlin at our clients, but we still use and love Java as well. …
Include runnable Kotlin code snippets in your WordPress posts
JetBrains offers a great online environment, Kotlin playground, where you can play around and share Kotlin code fragments. This environment offers an option to embed code fragments from the Kotlin …
Neo4J Meetup – Thinking in graphs
Stress. It eats energy. For the last few months, I’ve been rather busy winding down my responsibilities at the Rabobank, preparing myself for interviews with prospective new clients and finally …
Meetup: GitLab pipelines
Many of us use gitlab in our current project but do not truly understand the basics. For this meetup we decided to investigate how building a pipeline works by building …
Meetup: Rust
Being a company that specialises in building software for the JVM using mostly Kotlin (but still Java at times, we still love Java), doesn’t mean we do not have an …
Meetup: gRPC
For the first internal meetup of this year we decided to have a look at gRPC (https://grpc.io/). From their website: “gRPC is a modern open source high performance RPC framework …
Meetup: Project Loom
The year 2020 has been one of a kind. Work life was characterized by communicating with colleagues exclusively through messaging and video calls. No physical get-togethers at the office, in …