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: 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 …
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 …
Consumer Driven Contracts
Microservice integration Organizations that move towards microservices, experience new issues that come with this way of working. Imagine it’s the last day of the sprint and you spot a really …
Java 10: Local Variable Type Inference
With Java 10 a new feature was introduced to the language: local variable type inference. In this short post, I am going to take a closer look at what this …