JRuby with JBang

Well, it is that wonderful time of the year where we are at home for a few days enjoying the company...


Outbox Pattern

## Introduction One common pattern / challenge we encounter in distributed systems is the creation ...


Shine with Gleam

I have been programming for almost 22 years now professionally (for fun since 1995 or so) and I stil...


Why Nix?

As a compulsive distro-hopper and programmer who likes to try new languages a lot of my time is spen...


Why Kotlin?

This is another short post simply because this is an opinion and not a huge topic. I am working with...


Virtual Threads on Kotlin

So this is a short post. JDK 21 released recently with a huge feature - "Virtual Threads". I will no...


Reactive composition in Java using Spring / Micronaut

### Introduction Back in the day I did a lot of Java (2002-2010), it was the de-facto technology fo...


Composition, currying & state machines

One of my core philosophies is to build software systems which are more or less **"data transformers...


Function composition with ClojureScript & Node

We have talked a lot about functional composition in the last few posts. As I look at Clojure I feel...


Fun with function composition - 3

[Kotlin](https://kotlinlang.org/) is one of those languages which makes me happy. Somehow it feels v...