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Howard Gonzalez

Scala Developer

I'm a software engineer with more than 20 years of experience in software development, infrastructure and business intelligence projects, in various industries (banking, telecommunications, retail, oil & gas).As a Services Practice Lead, I have experience in building and developing high impact teams, that have delivered quantifiable business value to involved customers, making these teams a key business capability for an organization. I'm also an enthusiast about leveraging functional programming with Scala and reactive technologies, learning and practicing a lot about the following technologies and patterns: ZIO, Akka, serverless, event sourcing and CQRS.

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07.09.2023 / By Howard Gonzalez

TestContainers in Scala: Use Integration Tests for building your services

Scala Scala backend

TL;DR Integration tests are frequently seen as the most expensive tests in most environments. The reason is that they usually require a higher level of preparation and procedures to make them appropriate for your particular infrastructure dependencies. In addition, the time invested to make them work properly on the developer’s continuous integration/development environment is not […]

24.03.2022 / By Howard Gonzalez

Scala/Akka Actors, CQRS/ES, and IoT

CTO's Guidebook Developer’s kit Scala Scala backend

TL;DR In this article, I will summarize my experiences while working on an Internet of Things project for the first time. I’ll also be explaining how adopting the Actor model (Akka), Command Query Responsibility Segregation and Event Sourcing patterns brought a lot of benefits, such as: Introduction Scala Akka Actors, CQRS/ES, and IoT One of […]