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Linas Naginionis in soundvibe

Nov 24, 2015

Simple reactive microservices using rxJava Observables

Functional Reactive Programming is what interest me the most nowadays. RxJava is a great library which implements reactive extensions for the JVM. There are many reasons why functional reactive programming using RxJava is beneficial:

Linas Naginionis in soundvibe

Sep 5, 2015

Dependency Injection Frameworks. Do we really need them?

If you know me, you probably know that I’m not a huge fan of dependency injection frameworks. I’ve used them for a very long time but lately, especially after learning functional programming, I noticed that I’m not gaining anything…

Linas Naginionis in soundvibe

Jan 14, 2015

Optional type and monads

We all need to write some validation code from time to time. Usually this logic is implemented using if-else statements. Suppose our method expects Document entity as an argument and if customerId is not set, we should throw an exception. Sounds simple at first, but what if our…

Linas Naginionis in soundvibe

Dec 17, 2014

Currying in Java

I’m all into functional programming nowadays. I’m learning new ways of thinking every day. I feel that thinking from functional perspective is very beneficial as it helps you to solve your problems in very elegant way. Of course, functional programming is not a silver bullet, there are some cases…

Linas Naginionis in soundvibe

Nov 25, 2014

Static vs dynamic typing

Recently I’ve attended software conference called “Build Stuff”. The conference was smoothly organized, some great world-known speakers gave their talks there. I can say that functional programming topics were the most interesting to me. FP is reborn in the software development…