Composition vs Inheritance
The internet is so full of discussions concerning this point. It was first presented to me in Effective Java and while I think one should always take suggested good practices with a grain of salt…
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Bloom Filter for Dummies
Someone once told me that when it comes to Computer Science white papers, don’t bother with reading the whole thing. According to him as long as he understands the intuition behind it, he’ll know where to look…
Services and modules
There has been some debate in my team about how to define and differentiate between a “service” and a “module”. Here is my proposal: A module exists to fulfill some technical purpose. (A good module…
Java Weak References
This is just a note about an (in my opinion at least) interesting use case for Java weak references. Weak References Java helps the developer take care of tracking objects and memory and cleaning up…