TL;DR
– Spoiler alert! Graph databases are a great option for storing complex and highly connected data.
– In this post, I compare the benefits and risks of graph databases ArangoDB, Neo4j, and OrientDB for a client project.
– Due to the combination of performance and cost, I chose ArangoDB for my clientโs needs.
Several years ago, 2012 to be precise, I wrote an article on an approach to unit testing Spring Batch Jobs. My editors tell me that I still get new readers of the post every day, so it is time to revisit and update the approach to a more modern standard.
The approach used in the original post was purely testing the individual pieces containing any business logic. Back then, we didnโt have some of the mocking capabilities that we have today, so I went with an approach that made sense at the time.
However, there have been a few improvements in the past several years. One of those improvements has been the ability to Mock beans within a Spring Context. Thatโs where the @MockBean annotation comes to the rescue.
Base64 encoded strings are something that we as software developers encounter constantly in our day-to-day work. But, we usually pay little mind to how it operates and what it is actually doing for us.
In this post, we will help shed some light on Base64. We will discuss what it is, how it works, and why we choose to use it.
Both React and Angular are very popular front end development frameworks. In this post, I will discuss the similarities and differences between the two, and consider when one should be used instead of the other.
React is an open-source JavaScript library introduced by Facebook to build dynamic user interfaces. It is based on JavaScript and JSX (a PHP extension) and is considered widely for developing reusable HTML elements for front-end development.
Angular is an open-source front-end development framework powered by Google. It is a part of the MEAN stack and is compatible with a large number of code editors and is considered for creating dynamic websites and web apps.
In this post, we will begin by going over the benefits of React and Angular, then break down the differences between the two frameworks using thirteen attributes. By comparing each framework side by side, it can help decide which is the best framework for your specific app project.
This blog is about my dalliance with Elm; a purely functional, statically typed language that has type inference. It compiles to JavaScript. Functional programming is compelling, but heretofore, Iโd only woven cherry-picked techniques into large object-oriented projects. In FP parlance, Iโm partially applied! The times, they are a-changinโ.
In this article, Iโll:
– touch on the reasoning for giving a nod to functional languages and data immutability;
– move on to Elm; a blazing-fast, statically typed, purely functional browser-side language that compiles to JavaScript and follows the principles of functional reactive programming;
– survey background items and the Elm environment;
– show a simple type-and-click application, followed by a more realistic To-do application;
– end with my impressions from functional-programming semi-outsider point-of-view.