Urs Peter

Some years ago, when Reactive Streams lived in utopia we got the assignment to build a high-volume message broker. A considerable amount of code of the solution we delivered back then was dedicated to prevent this broker being flooded with messages in case an endpoint became slow. How would we have solved this problem today [] The post Exploring Akka Streams TCP Back Pressure appeared first on Xebia Blog.

Being relatively new to html5 and mobile development I spotted an excellent opportunity to catch up with the latest trends during the QCon conference in San Fransisco where they offered a wide variety of html5 and mobile tracks. In this blog I’ll share the insights I gained during the conference. After reading it you should [] The post State of the union of html5 in the mobile revolution appeared first on Xebia Blog.

For testing a restful service API I was looking for a lean library, which would allow me to test CRUD operations of rest services with as little code as possible. My search led me to Dispatch, which is a highly compact Scala DSL wrapper around Apache’s reliable HttpClient. This DSL, however, is not very well [] The post Easy breezy restful service testing with Dispatch in Scala appeared first on Xebia Blog.