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A few months ago I finished a huge refactoring of a Java/Scala project.

Software development teams naturally have leaders.

Software engineers like to discuss different aspects of their craft: elegant solutions, performance benchmarks, semantics of programming languages, the shortest webapp implementation with a favourite framework, etc.

Nowadays you can find lots of “must-read” lists about software engineering in general, as well as specific topic or language.

Last few months at Bench Accounting I’ve been working on an eventing system for our microservices stack.

Akka ecosystem provides a rich set of tools nowadays: you can use classic Akka Actors, well-known Scala Futures or relatively new Akka Streams.

Slick is a modern database query and access library for Scala.

Over the last few months I’ve seen so many questions about microservices from people who clearly don’t need them.

Last week I went to one of the most interesting Vancouver IT events: Polyglot Unconference.

Recently I’ve worked on a very simple Ansible task.

From Java Doesn’t Suck – You’re Just Using it Wrong: Sticky sessions and server state are usually one of the best ways to kill your performance and resilience.

DevOps, from wikipedia: DevOps (a portmanteau of “development” and “operations”) is a concept dealing with, among other things: software development, operations, and services.

I think that self-education is the most important aspect of a good Software Engineer.

I’m glad to present the new page about Software Development at Bench Accounting: https://developers.bench.co.

Microservices architecture is a popular trend right now.

Weapon Link to this heading During my career I see the battle between website/web app owners and bots/scrapers/crawlers writers.

Hiring is always hard.

It can be surprise for somebody, but Agile project management sometimes requires more attention than classical waterfall methodologies.

Totally awesome presentation about distributed computing and Akka Cluster by Jonas Bonér from Scala eXchange 2013.

Since my first meeting with Scala I always think that this language was designed to work in a concurrent environment.

Only in startup you can spend your Monday creating new module for single-page app in CoffeeScript, Tuesday refactoring billing system in Java, Wednesday writing new endpoint for RESTful API in Scala, Thursday researching CSS Flexbox spec and Friday making…

It looks like this is my new blog.