JVM versus Python for AWS Lambda Functions
The suitability of programming languages across different domains is a contested topic. AWS Lambda Functions are a serverless solution that can be used for ...
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Scala 3 and AWS Lambda Functions
AWS Lambda offer the ability to run code functions without a server. Basically standalone functions that receive JSON as a parameter and have up to 15 minute...
Downloading from Github Packages using HTTP and Maven
Github Packages is a Maven compatible respository and is accessible independent of Github. This article expands on alternative access to these files, such as...
Scala (SBT) Publishing to Github Packages
Github Packages is a natural extension of a CI/CD pipeline created in Github Action. It currently offers repositories for Java (Maven), .Net (NuGet), Ruby (G...
Emoji Progress Bar for SaaS Integrations
The command line progress bar was the first step towards graphical UI. It was an exciting addition to a numerical percent ticking away as a running task too...
Reflections: 6 Years of Software
My last blog update was 6 years ago, and Javascript still seems popular. Is this a case of There Is No Alternative?
Reactive Front-End with Web Components
The Reactive Manifesto puts together the ideal architecture for today’s system infrastructure, designed to cope with the ever increasing need for performan...
DOM Manipulation using Web Components
HTML elements are free to change the style, size, and placement of their children, and even their order. A lot of advanced use cases define rendering based...
ThreadLocal Variables and Scala Futures
Thread-Local storage (TLS) allows static variables to be attached to the currently executing thread. The most common use of TLS is to pass global context t...
Advanced Uses of Polymer Templates
Most sortable HTML table generators (such as AngularJS’s ng-grid) allow cells to be customized and formatted according to templates, however all templates ...
Sortable Table with Polymer Web Components
As businesses now rely more heavily on web applications to perform daily operations, a user friendly datatable/spreadsheet is indispensable to all web deve...
Polymer Data-Binding Filters
One useful feature of modern Javascript libraries is 2-way data-binding. All interactive websites perform this functionality one way or another, but only a...