Posts on Ivan Yurchenko

Java ecosystem is rich and mature.

You probably heard about property testing (AKA property-based testing), a testing technique where test inputs are randomly generated in great quantity and particular desired properties of the code under test are checked.

I worked with the Apache Kafka protocol on the low level quite a bit.

Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is a really great platform, mature, and well-established.

Update 26.03.2023: In February 2021, Bintray was shut down.

Excellent post about Akka Streams — Akka Team Really nice introduction to #Akka Streams!

The problem UUID standard has several versions.

Not so long ago, I wrote a post about creating type-safe query builders in Scala from scratch.

Update 11.01.2016: the next post about type-safe query builders using shapeless.

In many software engineering problems, we have a set and need to determine if some value belongs to this set.

UPD June 01, 2015: there is a plugin for this now.

Update 26.03.2023: In September 2022, Lightbend changed the license of Akka from Apache 2.0 to the source-available Business Source License (BSL) 1.1.

Type systems and compile-time type checking are great things that can save you a couple of hours of debugging and also have documenting potential, could make the code more understandable.

I am familiar (more or less) with a number of programming languages and have both emotional and rational thoughts of them.

Recently, I’ve faced a task of developing a tool which allows the application to have base of (not very complex) logical rules.

How much CPU cores does your computer have?

There is a popular task at software developer job interviews: having a singly linked list, write a piece of code which tells if the list has a cycle.

Introduction There are some algorithms of exact substring searching (e.g.