Since last publication, Pragmatica changed significantly. …

For the last few years, I’m writing articles which describe a new, more functional way to write Java code. But the question of why we should use this new coding style remains largely unanswered. This article is an attempt to fill this gap. Just like any other language, Java evolves…

This article is not an attempt to make reader choose or not choose microservices. Instead, I’m trying to fill some gaps in the microservices-related information, so the reader may make an informed decision. It's hard or even impossible to ignore microservices hype. Every day one can see more and more…

Yes, yes, I know, microservices are all the hype. But their claims correspond to reality? Let’s do a some fact checking. Let’s pick a random article with shameless microservice propaganda. It’s not hard, given how many of them already exists and how many new ones published every day. For example…

For about a year, all Java code I’m writing heavily uses functional programming approaches. This provides a lot of benefits, but description of this new style is a topic for a separate long article (or even series of articles). Now I’d like to focus on one curious observation: sometimes OO…