Venue: JEEConf 2017
Sources: github
Slides: google slides
Category: Groovy
'GPars: Unsung Hero of Concurrency in Practice' Talk at JEEConf 2017
Groovy Static Sites With Grain
The first option I considered when I decided to start up this blog was to use static site generator, and Jekyll as the most popular one was an obvious choice. Shortly after I was ready with the first version of this blog and first post - Using Jekyll, Asciidoctor and GitHub Pages for static site creation, I’ve noticed a link in @sdelamo Groovy Calamary #68 to the static site generator from Groovy world - Grain. As I consider myself as a Groovy ecosystem fan, I could not resist it and quickly migrated this blog to Grain.
GPars, Eratosthenes and Sieve of Concurrency
When there is a need to make sequential code concurrent, there are two major options. First one is to take the original code as is, divide it between multiple executors, protect a mutable state from concurrent access, do all other "please don’t fail" multithreading stuff and hope for better. The alternative is to look through different concurrency concepts like data parallelism, actors, dataflows, CSP, etc., select the most appropriate one for your problem statement and write the solution on its basis. Luckily there is a library that provides DSLs for all major concurrency concepts called GPars. In this article I will tease how it can be used before my JEEConf talk.
'What Mr. Spock Would Possibly Say About Modern Unit Testing: Pragmatic and Emotional Overview' Talk at JavaDay Kharkiv 2016
What Mr. Spock Would Possibly Say About Modern Unit Testing: Pragmatic and Emotional Overview
We will try to examine current state of the automated testing concept in the Java world. As a reference, we will go through basic and advanced spock-framework features and compare them with what JUnit4/JUnit5/TestNG/Hamcrest/AssertJ/Mockito/whatever can offer instead. We will try to understand Spock philosophy and find out both pragmatic and emotional answer to the questions: should I use spock-framework in the year of 2016? how to convince my manager that 'yes, we should'? how to convince my teammates that 'no, we shouldn’t'?