Being agile in 2019
On 22nd and 23rd October, with a few other Touks, I’ve been to a very inspiring event – Agile By Example conference in Warsaw. It’s Read more
Deep dive into Spring Boot Actuator HTTP metrics
Actuator Metrics
As reported in Michał Bobowski post, we heavily use Spring Boot Actuator metrics system based on Micrometer. It provides a set of practical Read more The experience of developing “Quak” during a hackathon.
In March 2019 we held a 2-day hackathon named “Ship IT!” in TouK. I was part of the team developing “Quak” – a 2D Liero/Soldat Read more Hacking a robot
Previous post have summarized “THE HACKATHON” in TouK. Today we will present one of the projects in greater detail – “Lidar/ROS.org based robot”. Our team Read more
TouK Hackathon – March 2019
Hackathons are prone to fail. It’s because we have very little time to create something useful, actually working and making a wow!-effect.
So this time Read more
How we use Kotlin with Exposed at TouK
Why Kotlin? At TouK, we try to early adopt technologies. We don’t have a starter project skeleton that is reused in every new project, we want to try something that fits the project needs, even if it’s not that popular yet. We tried Kotlin first it mid 2016, right after reaching 1.0.2 version Read more
Not so easy functional programming in JavaScript
Introduction
JavaScript allows for operating on arrays in a functional way, e.g. using filter or map functions. As an argument for these functions we can Read more
Testing NiFi Flow – The good, the bad and the ugly
Introduction
Some time has passed since we wrote our last blogpost about Apache NiFi where we pointed out what could be improved. It’s a very Read more
Loops performance in Groovy
IntroductionIn the 2018 Advent of Code challenged I solved all the puzzles in Groovy. It is pretty obvious, that choosing good data structure is the most important to obtain performant solution. However, the way we iterate over those structures is also... Read more
Testing Kotlin with Spock Part 3 – Interface default method
Kotlin allows you to put method implementation in an interface. The same mechanism can be found in Java interfaces as default methods (and also Groovy Read more