Abstract: Everyday we make conscious or subconscious decisions based on information we receive from different sources. We analyse data in our own way without necessarily being a certified data analyst. Broadly speaking, data crunching can happen to anyone of u…
Abstract: What should we denormalize and what should we not? How many times have you heard this question in the context of MongoDB? As a follow up of this question there is often a counter example of how we used to do it with a relational database. In this art…
Abstract : Will it work? ... How can I be sure? ... Am I forgetting something? ... questions that pile up slowly and ruin our confidence once we cannot clearly answer them. For reasons like these we write tests - to be confident, to be certain, to sleep better…
A year and a half ago, I migrated my blog from WordPress to GitHub. I was very happy to have a responsive and nicely styled blog thanks to Octopress which I could host for free on GitHub Pages. I even created a small goodbye post explaining how I did that. Tod…
Abstract : In this post you will find a brief introduction to Jongo - a fast, easy-to-use, Java-based querying library for MongoDB. There are plenty of articles discussing MongoDB around the Internet and it’s documentation is quite good. Thus, here you won’t f…
Abstract : Since you are here, chances are, you are in one of those situations where you have to come up with a blocking solution using AKKA. Thus I’m going to skip the actor model introduction which is necessary to understand how AKKA actor model implementati…
Abstract : Nearly 40 years ago Carl Hewitt, Peter Bishop and Richard Steiger introduced the actor model. Since then it has been built in some languages (such as Scala, Erlang, etc.) and has been implemented by several frameworks. One (of not so many) Java acto…