The 4th edition of Advent Of Code just started! In this short blog post, I would like to share with you some of my thoughts about it and why I participate in this event for the second time in the row.
Groovy has many useful functions built-in, and one of them is Iterable.combinations() that takes aggregated collections and finds all combinations of items. However, if we take a look its source code, we will find out that it was implemented using very imperative approach (nested for-loops + some if-statement). In this blog post I will show you how to implement the same function using Groovy and tail-recursion algorithm. Enjoy!
Most of the object-oriented programmers prefer constructing algorithms using imperative style over using recursion. This is pretty obvious in the JVM ecosystem, where imperative iteration is much more efficient than recursive function call chain. However, what if I tell you that in Groovy you can take advantage of clean tail-recursive functions without sacrificing performance? Interested? Let’s deep dive into it.
Welcome to the part 3 of "Non-blocking and async Micronaut" article. In the previous post we have created connection between two services using HTTP protocol and we have run some experiments with handling 10,000 requests. Today we are going to extend this example by setting some timeouts to see what happens.
Yesterday I have found this interesting question on Stack Overflow asked by Opal. He faced some unexpected compilation errors when dealing with Java generics and Vavr library. It turned out the root cause of the issue there was not the library, but Java compiler itself. This was pretty interesting use case and it motivated me to investigate it even further. This blog post reveals untold truth about Java generics type inference. Are you ready? :)
Welcome to the part 2 of "Non-blocking and async Micronaut" article. In the previous part we have explained the idea behind this demo and we have implemented product-service - a simple endpoint that returns information about some products. Today we will focus on implementing recommendations-service part and we will run some simple benchmark tests. Let’s start!
If you haven’t heard about Micronaut you have been probably just woken up from deep hibernation. No worries, I’m joking :) Anyway, Micronaut 1.0 GA was released yesterday and it is the right time to play around with it a bit. In this article I would like to show you how easy it is to handle HTTP requests in a non-blocking manner, using just a single computation thread. Interested? Let’s start!
In this short blog post I would like to explain how to avoid popular mistake when you write your first JUnit 5 test case in Groovy.
GraalVM became one of the most popular topics in the JVM ecosystem. It promises the highest possible speed of running JVM-based programs (when compiled to native images), hand in hand with the smaller memory footprint. It sounds interesting enough to give it a try. And today we are going to play around a little bit with running simple Groovy program after compiling to a standalone native image.
I guess you may heard about Groovy’s Collection.each(Closure cl) method - it was introduced 15 years ago [1] and it was a great alternative for a good old for-loop, for-each or even using an iterator approach. You may also heard, that you should not overuse it, because creating a closure to do such simple operation like collection iteration is an overhead. But what if I tell you that nothing could be further from the truth - Groovy’s each method may be faster than iterator or Java’s for-each. Sounds interesting? Enjoy the reading!