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 …
Meetup: Kotlin Flow
The last internal meetup of the year normally ends with an awesome company event and a great dinner where we get to enjoy the finest food and maybe a glass …
Meetup: Android
In October 2020 we had our meetup about Android basics. Development for Android is a bit different than regular JVM development. Android developers have been stuck with Java 1.6 via …
Java Completable Futures
On September 25th we had our monthly meetup, this time about Java CompletableFutures. CompletableFuture was introduced in Java 8 as a concurrency API improvement to the Future interface (of Java …
Tech day at bol.com
bol.com, the Netherlands largest online retailer, has been a client of Sourcelabs for many years. Recently we had the opportunity to co-organized a tech day for one of the product …
Project Loom, lightweight threads for the JVM
Building scalable Java applications using Threads can be quite a challenge. Java Threads are also known for using a lot of OS-resources especially comparing them with lightweight alternative like Fibers …
Testing with Spring – a Work(shop) in Progress
Even though it’s been several years, I still remember being a Spring newbie very clearly. (2003, me (far right blue sweater) in the computer lab where I wrote my first …
Micronaut & Quarkus
Every last Friday of the month we as Sourcelabs come together for our internal meetup. The goal of this meetup is to learn new things and to have fun together. …
Dealing with newbies
My name is Duncan Campbell and I work as a senior developer in a team of seven developers at the Rabobank. In the last year, there’s been a lot of …