Michał Amerek
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Michał Amerek

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To build or not to build – refactoring towards immutability

Builder pattern to gain object immutability is the most commonly used solution. I analyze its advantages, disadvantages and alternatives based on a real-life example.

Messaging Patterns implemented with SQS and SNS

In the first two parts of the series about messaging (1 , 2) I made a certain inventory of concepts. Now, I am about to mix them up and show the usage with the help of SNS <-> SQS implementations.

Messaging Patterns to know in Microservices – part II

Nowadays, we all create microservices and more and more often we use asynchronous communication. In the first article from the series, I wrote about message construction and messaging channels. Here, I will focus on message routing and endpoints.

Messaging Patterns to know in Microservices – part I

Nowadays, we all create microservices and more and more often we use asynchronous communication. In this article, I will try to identify the individual elements of such a messaging system and their roles. In the first part I will focus on message construction and messaging channels.

To mutate or not – on Entities and Value Objects

To mutate or not

We all know that immutability is GOOD. But should we use it everywhere by default? Let’s show it on the basis of a distinction between Entities and Value Objects.

Yet another architecture clean up

This article discusses different approaches to creating a layered architecture – how to reflect the business context in the code; how to structure it; how to understand the dependency inversion and infrastructure layer; and finally as a possibly isolate modules.

Object-Oriented Thinking in the Data-Centric World

The mental model of object-oriented programming is not intuitive. The speed and dynamics of today’s data-centric world make it a difficult case. How to learn object-oriented programming then?

Tech Jump – mentoring program kick off

Tech Jump is the pilot of mentoring program in Schibsted Tech Polska – Academy project. The idea is to allow people to switch the technology or just to get to know another one.

Vaadin – why not

Yes, there are some reasons to use the Java framework Vaadin. But there are many more disadvantages in my opinion.