Rantings of a recovering developer

As you sink deeper into the big data world and your collection of map reduce jobs grow you realize that you need a work scheduler to chain a...

Imagine you run a popular e-commerce site focused on hip and trendy clothing for women and you got a whiz bang recommendation engine that re...

Testing and debugging multi threaded programs is hard. Now take the same programs and massively distribute them across multiple JVMs dep...

I first ran into monoid while searching for monads on google. Monoids are ubiqitius in programming and chances are that you have already use...

“There's no sense being exact about something if you don't even know what you're talking about” -- John von Neumann I read the a...

Against the current popular wisdom on the interweb, Supreme court of my home state Wisconsin is porting their legacy applications to Scala...

Scala for the impatient Recently I got hold of a free sample of Cay Horstmann’s upcoming Scala book, “Scala for the Impatient” and so far I...