Tiptoeing Through the Asynch Door with the CompletionStage Interface JSE17

When it comes to holidays, I’m as spontaneous as they come. I enjoy not planning and picking the best option available just before or even while traveling.

So I needed a holiday… and a reason to explore Java’s async magic.

We’ll get to this Holiday Finder but first let’s get the theory out of the way, shall we?

Diving Right In

Considering two API calls A & B, API A is called first, and then API B. This is what synchronous code does: it waits before executing the next task and things run in order. However, could the thread blocked on the API response be doing some other work instead?

Your survival guide to feathered philosophies in software development

Rubber Duck Debugging

Alright, we’re starting easy and light for this one.

It was popularised by the Pragmatic Programmer written by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas (an alumnus of Imperial College London). The idea is rather simple: instead of spending hours trying to debug something obscure, explain the code line-by-line to an inanimate object - a rubber duck named Chucky maybe? - to help you work out what the problem is.

Domain Name System: traffic distribution on a budget

It’s not magic

What happens when you type leane.dev in your browser?

As a regular reader of this blog, I am allowing myself to take your everyday example.

You want to access the server hosting this blog, but how do you reach it? On the Internet, routing is done by finding the path to a given Internet Protocol - IP. Thing is: you don’t know my IP, not directly. It’s easier to remember the hostname: leane.dev. Yet, the browser manages to display the blog to you.