A successful Event Storming session — as well as a successful software project — demands equal parts art, knowledge, and technical skill. Also, it’s much cheaper to make changes to sticky notes than production code. …

The Play framework is a web framework for the JVM that breaks away from the Servlet Specification. Play embraces a fully reactive programming model through the use of futures for asynchronous programming, work stealing for maximizing available threads, and Akka for distribution of work. Not only does Play have some…

Does copyright law apply to articles published on Medium? No, it does not; not in the way that you assume it does. It came to my attention that two authors plagiarized an article I published on Medium called “What is Reactive Programming?” https://medium.com/reactive-programming/what-is-reactive-programming). To see how blatant the plagiarism is…

Streaming is the ultimate game changer for data-intensive systems. In a world where every second counts, the batch jobs of yesteryear with overnight processing times measured in hours are nothing but an expense. Per-event streaming puts the emphasis on recent data that can be actioned right now. We’ve lost our…

Rather than acting on data at rest, modern software increasingly operates on data in near real-time. Big data is less important than fast data, and fast data is crucial to fast knowledge. Stream processing is one way to help turn data of all sizes — big, medium, or small —…

To understand Reactive — both the programming paradigm and the motivation behind it — it helps to understand the challenges that are faced by developers and companies today compared to the challenges faced only a decade ago. The two major game changers for developers and companies are: Advancements in hardware. …

Advice from a developer who helped rebuild Walmart.ca with Scala and Play — From late 2011 to early 2014 I was a lead developer at Nurun Toronto, a digital agency focused on e-commerce solutions. Facing a pipeline of new projects with nothing but Spring in one hand and Java in the other, I realized that it was time to quickly explore alternatives. Working…