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The actor model is a design pattern for fault-tolerant and highly scalable systems. Actors are independent worker-modules that communicate with other actors only through message-passing, can fail in isolation from other actors but can monitor other actors...

I’ve been building enterprise Java web apps since servlets were created. In that time the Java ecosystem has changed a lot but sadly many enterprise Java developers are stuck in some very painful and inefficient ways of doing things. In my travels I...

This article is overdue. After the hype around the release of Kotlin 1.0 has settled, let’s have a serious look at some Kotlin language features that we should have in Java as well. In this article, I’m not going to wish for unicorns. But there are...

I was really glad to find out that my presentation about Scala and Java 8 was retweeted more than other similar content. That’s why I decided to make some notes and tell you about it. We are going to talk about the difference between Scala and Java and...

I have below code which method returns Future[Account] where Account is the case class object. Below is the code When the accountFutOpt is Some(account) the result is Success(Account) as expected. But when the accountFutOpt is None, the output of the...