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Blog about my projects and software development in general

Linas Naginionis

Aug 8, 2019

Not so great kafka configuration and how I fixed it

Linas Naginionis

Jul 20, 2017

Kotlin is great for writing DSLs

Kotlin is the rising star of the new programming languages. After Google has announced that it is officially supporting Kotlin as a first-class language in Android development, it’s interest has grown drastically.

Linas Naginionis

Mar 7, 2016

Property-based testing 4 JUnit

Just wanted to share that I’ve decided to publish my new JUnit test runner which allows to do property-based testing. I’ve wrote it a few days ago and it looks quite promising.

Linas Naginionis

Feb 11, 2016

Reacto is now on the github!

Just wanted to announce that my newest open source library “reacto” is now on the github.

Reacto is able to abstract away Observables from RxJava so that they can be executed on different servers. This is especially useful when building microservices…

Linas Naginionis

Jan 28, 2016

You should never test non public methods

One of biggest misconceptions I see when someone is doing TDD, is the willingness to test all the methods (even private and protected) in the System Under Test. It may appear to be a good thing to do at first (more tests), unless you try to think about…

Linas Naginionis

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

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…