Creating a Scalable WebSocket Application in an Hour with Scala

In general, a web browser does not keep the HTTP connection open when it requests a resource from a server. Of course, there are several exceptions when the web browser keeps the connection open for a period of time such…

Getter/Setter — the most hated practice in Java.

You should use getter/setter.
You should use getter/setter.
You should use getter/setter.
If you don’t, you are not a good programmer. Really?

The Clustering Process

In my experience as a Data Scientist in an e-commerce company, when asked a question, clustering is very often the answer. The problem with clustering being the answer is that it raises a 100 other questions.

Elastic Beanstalk vs APIG, Part 1 in an AWS Showdown

We recently had our first customer-facing Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure roll out for the main production websites here at Zappos. For reasons that are outside the scope of this blog post, we now have every product page at…

Stop Break’ing Your Code

To break or not to break? Is that the question?

TL;DR

Stop using break statements in your loops, opt instead for “termination” variables. These are variables that should be a part of the termination condition of a loop making it…