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Introduction In the cloud computing era, companies start using services like Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. We can hear about the term “Serverless”. It doesn’t mean that we don’t have any servers. It means that third-party services provide us server infsrastrucutre, monitoring and scaling capabilities, so we don’t have to care about that stuff by ourselves and we can focus on writing code. We have concepts like Backend as a Service (BaaS) and Funtion as a Service (FaaS)....

Today, I’ve released my another tiny project. It’s a very simple implementation of Event Bus with RxJava 2 under the hood. This library is compatible with Java 1.7 or higher. I didn’t use Java 1.8 or 1.9 because I wanted to make it compatible with Android apps. You can use it as follows: Bus bus = ReactiveBus.create(); Disposable observer = bus.receive().subscribe(new Consumer<Event>() { @Override public void accept(Event event) { // handle event here } }); Once, we created Event Bus object and our observer (or more precisely: disposable subscriber), we can start sending events:...

Introduction In one of my open-source projects - ReactiveNetwork I have a documentation in README.md file and I have JavaDocs as well. This project is an Android library written in Java and built with Gradle. Moreover, I develop this project on two separate Git branches - one for RxJava1.x and another one for RxJava2.x. Similar convention is in the RxJava repository, so I followed it. After each release I publish documentation and JavaDocs on GitHub pages for both versions....

On the 8th of February 2018, during Quality Meetup #15, I gave a presentation titled “Fixing a billion dollar mistake”. Tony Hoare introduced Null Reference w in ALGOL language in 1965. He calls this decision a “billion dollar mistake”. It was so easy to implement and probably it caused a loss of millions of dollars due to the mistakes done in the software over the 40 years. During the time, people came up with different ideas of solving that problem with software libraries, good programming practices, static code analysis and compile time code analysis....

Recently, I’ve decided to refresh my knowledge regarding Docker and created an image with Alpine Linux and Java 9, which can be a useful base for the future projects. I used Alpine as a base image because it became quite popular in the Docker world due to its simplicity and the fact that it’s pretty lightweight when we compare it to containers based on other Linux distributions. Pure Alpine Docker container has about 4....