How to Create a Mind (A Book Review)

The dream of emulating human brain is one of the most challenging endeavour of our time. As technological advancement is gradually speeding up and the vast amount of data giving cues ...

Protocols and multimethods

Similar in Command Pattern, that we are familiar from object-orient programming, Clojure provides multimethods and protocols which enable developers to implement such runtime polymorp...

Dockerized Java Enterprise

Since Docker containers became the new virtualization layer between the operating system and the applications, Java engineers whose job was to develop web services in the SOA epoch, h...

Powermocking and OOP

Encapsulation helps us to define boundaries of data and behavior within a class, though there are mocking frameworks which bend the rules of this protection. But, if you consider, is ...

R in Practice: Pipes

The more I write code in R, the more I am impressed with the facilities that the language provides which is perfectly tailored to cleaning and tidying data, one of the most crucial st...

Routine

Once you get a job, and code for others and get paid for it, you are a professional, a part of the whole, a cell in business organism and the business needs to survive in the competit...

Mesos: A Datacenter OS

Lifting in Scala

Partial functions are widely used in Scala. Just like their mathematical counterpart, a partial function, e.g f: X => Y, is a generalisation of functions, that don’t necessarily ma...

A Brief Story of flatMap

The function flatMap, in Scala, is basically a binding element (and also a functional combinator) in the language and key to understand some important concepts of functional programmi...

Scala Companion Objects

It’s a very common approach to create new objects using factory methods in object-oriented programming as it is in Java. It allows us to decrease coupling between software components ...