C Strings, a C++ View Posted on: 2020-09-25 by max The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal – at least according to Aristotle. On the other hand, software engineering tries quite hard to deal with unequal things in the same way. Think for example to the file system concept, it is very handy to deal with data in yourContinue reading: C Strings, a C++ View→
Our Father’s Faults – Wrapping it up Posted on: 2020-01-23 by max Yet again on the misbehaviors found in the Scala codebase I have inherited, and wrap up of the series. #OurFathersFaults #Scala #SoftwareEngineering #AkkaAntipatterns
Out Fathers’ Faults – Actors and Concurrency Posted on: 2020-01-16 by max On the troubles related to concurrent programming in the actor model
Our Fathers’ Faults – Actors – Explicit State Posted on: 2020-01-09 by max On the problems encountered when trying to skip details and creating single state state machines.
Our Fathers’ Faults – Mixing Actors and OOP 2 – Acting is not an inherited trait Posted on: 2019-12-29 by max On the trouble you face when you attempt to compose actor behavior by inheritance.
Our Fathers’ Faults – Mixing Actors and OOP 1, Actors with methods Posted on: 2019-12-19 by max On the troubles you may incur when trying to conciliate the (untyped) actor model with the (typed) OOP world.
Our Fathers’ Faults – Akktors and Ekkstras Posted on: 2019-12-13 by max After the first four posts of “Our Fathers’ Faults” it’s time to turn a specific aspect of the application – the Akka framework. The code I’m managing is strongly based on this framework offering endless inspiration for misuse and abuse. Before going straight to the sins parade, I think it is proper a brief introductionContinue reading: Our Fathers’ Faults – Akktors and Ekkstras→
Our Fathers’ Faults – Scantly Typed Language Posted on: 2019-12-05 by max on the troubles coming from letting Scala infer the types of functions and expressions.
Our Fathers’ Faults – The Chain of Death Posted on: 2019-11-28 by max on the abuse of function composition from the software engineering point of view.
Our Fathers’ Faults – Operator @!# Posted on: 2019-11-21 by max on the abuse of custom operator definition in Scala
