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That moment when...

The moment had to arrive eventually. You know, that moment when after months and years learning Functional Programming (FP), you realize and understand why you would need Heterogeneous Lists (HLists) and why Shapeless is a great Scala library. It all started at work, with the very basic task of validating

Skiing in Singapore - Episode 1

About 4 months ago, a friend of mine sent me a link to this fun challenge [http://geeks.redmart.com/2015/01/07/skiing-in-singapore-a-coding-diversion/] proposed by Redmart [https://redmart.com/]. The goal is to find not the shortest but the longest path in a mountain.

Some fun with akka-streams and akka-http

You may have heard about Reactive Programming, the Reactive manifesto [http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/] or the attempt to standardize [http://www.reactive-streams.org/] the concept of streams. Quick note, let's forget about this last one, it is not an end-user standard. Akka Streams [http://akka.io]

A start from scratch

No, I am not talking about this blog, but about the evolution of the monolithic Java application I spend most of my time on at work. This application is a good old ear deployed on a venerable Glassfish 3.0.1. It works well, but does not meet completely our

Back to blogging

Hi there, this is yet another blog dev. As always, I will try to be committed to this one and fill this space with articles about techs and stuffs I do or like. Expect a mix of Scala code, 3D printing, thoughts about tools, and more. I hope some of