Spaghetti and Hammers - Articles

How to interview engineers in the age of AI

Sharing some of my favorite programming principles

A critical look at daily stand-ups and how they often disrupt focus, delay progress, and become performative rituals instead of productive meetings.

Some technical books I would recommend every engineer to read

When to follow the rules and when to break them

Some thoughts on my experience using the latest Gen-AI tools

Bloom Filters as space-efficient alternatives to Sets

Using Java Service Loader to allow pluggable code

Load testing a service using k6

Scala tutorials now in Baeldung

How to be a good developer - beyond the technical skills

I have been thinking for long time in creating a newsletter.

Implementing User Authentication on Scala Play Framework

How to make Java saying 1 + 1 = 3 by messing with Integer cache

My experience coming from the JVM into front-end development with React

How to create a type safe builder pattern

Beginners tutorial on why and how to use RabbitMQ with Scala examples

The updated version of the Play Framework, Slick, and MySQL tutorial and demo application.

A intro to Mutation Testing, a technique that has become robust enough to be seen as a reliable alternative to Code Coverage as the de facto metric for assessing your unit tests quality.

Why use statically typed languages when all of your types are Strings?

Are Scala Streams really lazy?

Advanced HTML forms in Play framework.

How to create simple HTML forms in Play framework.

Why you should think twice before using Scala Tuples.

How to handle exceptions in Scala. try/catch vs Try vs Catch[T]

How to use Git?

Some basic, or not so basic, questions about Scala.

Functional Programming concepts.

Getting started with Git.

Introduction to Git.

Second part of Scala enumerations, after some discussions.

How to use enumerations in Scala?

Code review has become one of the most important (and used) techniques when it comes to code quality.

This month Slack announced to have raised $200M on its most recent financing.

Last week GitHub released another new feature: GPG signature verification.

Following up my previous post on mapping json objects to Scala models, it is time to present some more advanced use cases.

Git has become one of the most essential tools for every developer.

If you deal with external APIs (like Twitter, Facebook, Intercom, Github, and many others) on a regular basis there’s a big chance that you have already dealt with JSON answers before.

This post was originally published on Codacy blog by me: I believe the Open Source movement is the biggest breakthrough in software development.

Edit: You may want to have a look at the updated example using Play 2.7 instead of Play 2.4 at Play Framework and Slick example updated Typical nowadays applications need to store some persistent data frequently.

For those who don’t know, the Play Framework is the standard web framework for Scala (also available to Java), and it is similar to many other MVC frameworks, such as Spring MVC, Ruby on Rails, Django, and so on.

Last week, on September 1st, I started a new adventure on Codacy.

It has been a while since my last post, but between some side projects, summer vacation, and personal hobbies, it hasn’t been exactly easy to get time to write something.

Recently I’ve finished reading the book ‘Languages in Seven Weeks’.

Have you ever committed code that made you feel ashamed?

Hey there, and welcome to my new blog!