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When you go into an interview you will be asked a lot of questions. I’ve interviewed at least a couple dozen people and I’d say about 85% of the time when the developer, somewhere towards the end of the interview, is asked “And do you perhaps have any
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After several months of being able to casually show up to our meetups and simply consume a whole day’s worth of activities, it was once again my turn to do the organising and production. The last time it was my turn I organised a day’s worth of Akka
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Every last Friday of the month we organise an internal meetup at Sourcelabs. This time it was my turn to prepare the subject: Akka in Kotlin. Akka is an implementation of an Actor Model system. Whilst preparing the workshop I read parts of "Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor
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Stress. It eats energy. For the last few months, I’ve been rather busy winding down my responsibilities at the Rabobank, preparing myself for interviews with prospective new clients and finally getting a new contract with a new client that I was 100% satisfied with. When it was all over
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Even though it’s been several years, I still remember being a Spring newbie very clearly. (2003, me (far right blue sweater) in the computer lab where I wrote my first Java application). I’d be working on some big fat legacy system which was more akin to archaeology than
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My name is Duncan Campbell and I work as a senior developer in a team of seven developers at the Rabobank. In the last year, there’s been a lot of change within the team. Two of our most senior members left to pursue other assignments at more or less