Hit me baby one more time – What are cache hits and why should you care?
12/06/19
Computer architecture, e.g. the CPU cache utilization, can influence the runtime of your implementation in orders of magnitude. Read more
Posts by Frank Rosner
Microbenchmarking your Scala code
11/29/19
Microbenchmarks are a useful tool to compare the relative performance of different implementations. ScalaMeter is a microbenchmarking and regression testing framework for Scala. Read more
Consumer-driven contract testing with Pact
Consumer-driven contract testing is an alternative to end-to-end tests. In this blog post we want to take a look at the basics of consumer-driven contract testing with Pact. Read more
Understanding the AWS Lambda SQS integration
08/12/19
How does the Lambda SQS integration work exactly? How do the different configuration parameters impact the behaviour of your integration? Read more
Let’s also apply run with Kotlin scope functions
07/09/19
In Kotlin, scope functions allow you to execute a function, i.e. a block of code, in the context of an object. Read more
Resilience design patterns: retry, fallback, timeout, circuit breaker
06/25/19
Resilient software should tolerate faults, but also failures. Retry, fallback, timeout, and circuit breaker are popular resilience design patterns. Read more
Testing your database migrations with Flyway and Testcontainers
06/07/19
Automated database migrations are an important building block of agile software development. How can we perform migrations and test them? Read more
Docker demystified
06/04/19
Since its open source launch in 2013, Docker has become one of the most popular pieces of technology out there. But why is it so popular? Read more
Ten cognitive biases to look out for as a developer
05/21/19
Cognitive biases can be viewed as bugs in our thinking. In this post we take a look at 10 cognitive biases to look out for as a developer. Read more