The react native library provides a component called SafeAreaView which facilitates containing the content within the safe area boundaries of a device thereby avoiding display notches or cutouts. It achieves so by applying padding to the nested content so as to avoid navigation bars, tab bars, toolbars, and other ancestor…
Persistent Entities in Lagom hold state of individual entities. In other words, they cannot be used to serve queries that span more than single entity. This requires us to create another view of the data that is tailored to serve rather optimized queries that span over multiple entities, which brings…
In the last post we saw how Lagom provides us a default exception serializer out of the box to help us translate exceptions to appropriate HTTP responses in Json. We also learnt how Lagom treats exception translations differently when in production and in development as part of it's built in…
Lagom is an open source framework for building systems of Reactive microservices both in Java or Scala. It provides many out of the box although opinionated APIs, implementation of supporting features and appropriate defaults to build, test and deploy entire systems of Reactive microservices at a fast, yet reliable pace.…
In this blog post I will be proposing a code design template (in Scala) that I have come up with in a very short but fulfilling experience working on a small project based on Apache POI. If you have ever worked with a library like Apache POI, you might have…
In this blog post, we will be discussing factory pattern use cases and implementations in Akka to create actors. Factory of Actors As we already know, in order to create an actor, we need to instantiate an object of akka.actor.Props class with all the configurations needed to create…
This blog post is an afterthought of myself working on Akka Schedulers in an official project. The objective here is to convey the challenges that one may face while working with scheduling/rescheduling Akka Schedulers. On this journey of ours to understand scheduling/rescheduling Akka Schedulers, we will be discussing…
In this blog post, we will be discussing a UX design challenge that I encountered while working on small ReactJS application at work and pertaining design considerations. TL;DR: The post discusses UX designs that were considered progressively so as to come up with a reasonably intuitive UX design to…
TL;DR: https://github.com/iamsmkr/consul-scala-macro-annotations Off lately at my work which currently involves moving our platform code from monolithic to microservices architecture, I have come to realise that there is a lot of boilerplate code that not only needs to be implemented in every other service but also…
Case studies are great opportunities to learn from anytime. While textbooks and reference materials servers the purpose of introducing the concepts, definitions and methods, it is case studies that really teaches us on how to apply these in real world. In this blog post we will be discussing the architectural…