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Ivan Hristov

Ivan Hristov

I am a lead software engineer working on software topics related to cloud, machine learning, and site reliability engineering.

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3 things to know when working & debugging Amazon SageMaker

The case of training & deploying an MXNet-based deep learning network via Jupyter Notebook Recently I had the chance to use Amazon SageMaker and so it happened that I needed to debug a

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java 8

An overview of Apache Spark RDD & Java 8 Streams

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

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Java

Authentication & authorization with Spring Boot & MongoDB

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

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Java

Bringing together Docker, Grunt, Maven, EmberJS & MongoDB

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

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GitHub Pages

GitHub Pages & Ghost - Just blog it!

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

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Java

MongoDB With Jongo - Sleeves Up!

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’

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Java

AKKA Ask Pattern: For Those Times When You Have to Block

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

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Java

Chatting Through JActor

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

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FEST-Reflect

Integration Test - AKKA Actor With Awaitility

Abstract : Ever had an impression you're changing what you're observing by simply observing it? If you so, you may have hit a Heisenbug ([1], [2]). Well, OK, I agree that a more precise

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Mac OS X

Surviving Mac OS X Bash Terminal With Midnight Commander (MC)

Abstract : Midnight Commander (MC) is one of the few tools I'm still using since I've been inducted into software engineering more than 10 years ago (for comparison I've changed 5 integrated development environments

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FEST-Reflect

AKKA Actor Dependency Injection Using Spring

Abstract : Dependency Injection (DI) is refine flavor of Inversion of Control (IoC) design pattern. One of the software frameworks out there which provides DI implementation is Spring. AKKA on the other hand is

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Jetty

Configuring Jetty With Exploded Web Archives

Abstract : Having a great number of useful features, Jetty is one of the most popular servlet containers around. In this post we are going to prepare our test-bed with Jetty using exploded web

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FEST-Reflect

Testing AKKA Actors With Mockito and FEST-Reflect

Abstract : One of the few frameworks implementing the actor model is AKKA. In fact AKKA is a lot more than just an implementation of the actor model, but within this post we are

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FEST-Reflect

Nested Java Field Access With FEST Reflect

Abstract: For one reason or another it's often needed to access fields which are nested (sometimes deeply nested) within other fields. Of course you can write the logic yourself or (from now on)

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Maven

Backbone.Marionette - Skeleton of a JavaScript Web Application

Abstract: The present article will give a brief introduction to a way of building JavaScript based web applications using RequireJS (version 2.0.1), jQuery (version 1.7.2), Underscore (version 1.3.

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JPA 2.0

JPA 2.0, Hibernate, HSQLDB, and Google Guice

Today's software recipe includes the following main ingredients (as Maven artifacts) Guice, Hibernate, JPA, HSQLDB, FEST-Assert, Apache Commons Lang, JUnit which we are going to put and mix in Eclipse 3.7.2

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FEST-Reflect

Decoration With FEST-Reflect 1.3

Yesterday (3rd of April, 2012) the FEST-Reflect 1.3 (part of FEST libraries) was published on maven central. Since this fact requires a celebration, I've prepared a short tutorial of the new field

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