Mariusz Nosiński

While designing an API we need to make a lot of choices. Among others, we need to decide which protocol to use to communicate between services. Common designs consist of many services, so we need to choose the protocol for all of them. In the past, in the monolith architecture era, we had an API […]

Many people think that GraphQL is ‘something’ related to Graph Databases, in my opinion they’re wrong. GraphQL is to Graph DB like Javascript to Java. Are based on similar concepts, but are used for completely different things.In short: GraphQL is a query language for APIs, optimized for performance, designed and open-sourced by Facebook. In GraphQL you can ask server for connected data and you’ll get in response only what you’ve asked for. Not more. Great! Isn't it?

Part of the success of modern application is targeting it globally – all over the world. It isn’t possible to run such application on a single machine, even with most powerful hardware. Definitions like Distributed computing or Reactive applications were born in the process of IT globalization. Nowadays, applications run on multiple virtual machines distributed over multiple physical machines […]

In this article series, I’m going to introduce you to OrientDB database, show its strengths, weaknesses and how to use it with Scala.

If you’re looking for the best library to build concurrent and distributed applications, probably sooner than later you’ll come across Akka. It’s a very powerful open source library maintained by Typesafe for making such apps.

A lot of dynamic typed languages has function that catch all messages the target object doesn’t have. It gives these languages a lot of power to write DSL. Scala 2.9 introduced an experimental option that enables this sort of dynamic handling of accesses to types in ways that would otherwise fail static type checking. It […]