About Tomasz Nurkiewicz
Java EE developer, Scala enthusiast. Enjoying data analysis and visualization. Strongly believes in the power of testing and automation.
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FitNesse your ScalaTest with custom Scala DSL
This article won’t be about FitNesse. As matter of fact I don’t like this tool very much and it seems to be loosing momentum, judging by the traffic on an official mailing ...
Promises and futures in Clojure
Clojure, being designed for concurrency is a natural fit for our Back to the Future series. Moreover futures are supported out-of-the-box in Clojure. Last but not least, Clojure is ...
Promises and Deferred objects in jQuery and AngularJS
Series of articles about futures/promises without JavaScript would not be complete. Futures (more commonly named promises in JS land) are ubiquitous in JavaScript to the point where ...
DeferredResult – asynchronous processing in Spring MVC
DeferredResult is a container for possibly not-yet-finished computation that will be available in future. Spring MVC uses it to represent asynchronous computation and take advantage ...
Futures in Akka with Scala
Akka is actor based, event-driven framework for building highly concurrent, reliable applications. Shouldn’t come a surprise that concept of a future is ubiquitous in a system ...
Advanced ListenableFuture capabilities
Last time we familiarized ourselves with ListenableFuture. I promised to introduced more advanced techniques, namely transformations and chaining. Let’s start from something straightforward. ...
ListenableFuture in Guava
ListenableFuture in Guava is an attempt to define consistent API for Future objects to register completion callbacks. With the ability to add callback when Future completes, we can ...
Implementing custom Future
Last time we learned the principles behind java.util.concurrent.Future<T>. We also discovered that Future<T> is typically returned by libraries or frameworks. But there ...
java.util.concurrent.Future basics
Hereby I am starting a series of articles about future concept in programming languages (also known as promises or delays) with a working title: Back to the Future. Futures are very ...
Breaking build is not a crime
For years I’ve been taught that breaking continuous integration build is something that should be avoided under all circumstances. Let me first quote few classics. Uncle Bob in ...
