Companies today are increasingly dependent on technology. If you build a product or offer a service, there is a chance that you have an IT team supporting your business in delivering value to customers. This remains true even for organizations whose offerings aren’t strictly digi … | Continue reading
Most of you reading this blog are likely familiar with vendor lock-in - the situation where services are so tightly integrated that replacing one becomes nearly impossible. But have you ever considered the risk of being locked out of your data? Google pinky promises that they won … | Continue reading
Let me venture to say that nowadays, a modern programming language without a rich ecosystem of libraries and frameworks will sooner or later become just a fancy toy with no practical usage. Fortunately, this doesn’t apply to Kotlin at all. Why? Firstly because of Kotlin's great i … | Continue reading
Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking is one of the JEPs being introduced with JDK 24. Its primary goal is to enhance the startup time of JVM applications in the most seamless manner. You can utilize this feature without any additional code changes or extra tools. You can simply … | Continue reading
There are tons of statistics about cyber security out there. The ones that I see most often agree that the security market is growing, with high demand for security engineers, and increase in their salaries. Apart from that, according to securityheaders.com around 46% out of scan … | Continue reading
During one of our company's integration trips, we visited The Futurium – a museum that explores various future scenarios. One exhibit, in particular, left a strong impression on me and inspired this article. It showcased a dense and interconnected network of rapidly evolving even … | Continue reading
In this blog post, I will compare different approaches to speeding up JVM startup time. First, let's clarify what I mean by startup time. Startup time is the duration from when a JVM process is initiated to when it is ready to perform its intended tasks. The definition of "intend … | Continue reading
Last year was significant for Kotlin, as major version 2.0.0 was released in May. While it introduced many exciting features, most notably the stable K2 compiler, it made almost no changes to the language’s design. However, that changed with the release of version 2.1.0 in Novemb … | Continue reading
The Context plays a central role in OpenTelemetry: it stores the metadata of the current invocation chain, such as the trace currently in progress. This allows correlating multiple spans into a single logical unit. In the Java OpenTelemetry SDK, the Context is by default passed u … | Continue reading
Kotlin is a modern, well-designed, general-purpose programming language that is emerging as a promising choice for web development. It offers excellent support for functional programming, full-fledged coroutines, domain-specific language creation, smart type casting, and many oth … | Continue reading
We are very close to the 10-year anniversary of Rust 1.0's release, and that was some kind of a journey. While Rust, as a project, is actually a bit older, it dates back to 2006, when Graydon Hoare started working on it, the last ten years since the stable 1.0 release have transf … | Continue reading
To succeed in the tech industry, you need to keep learning, network with others, and stay updated on the latest tech trends. There are many conferences in Europe every year, making it hard to choose the right one. To help you, we have put together a list of the best tech conferen … | Continue reading
Rust celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2025—an exciting milestone for the language and its vibrant community! The #MyRustStory series highlights insights from key community leaders shaping the Rust ecosystem. Want to connect with them in person? Join Rustikon, Poland’s first Rus … | Continue reading
In the previous Java data processing using modern concurrent programming I introduced the new Jox library feature Flows. In this article, I would like to show an example project that solves a real business use case utilizing Flows. This means that detailed description of methods … | Continue reading
If you are paying any attention to the IT world in recent years, you probably have heard the word Rust when talking about programming on more than one occasion. You may even be aware, more or less, of why that is and why so many people are excited and jumping on the Rust bandwago … | Continue reading
Server Side Rendering (SSR) has made a big comeback in recent months. It’s been quite refreshing to take a step back and not use JSON for communication with the front-end. There are quite a few templating languages to choose from and if you know one, switching between them is usu … | Continue reading
The diffusion process gradually denoises an initial noisy image until a clear, quality image is obtained. The initial noisy image is a random Gaussian noise. The denoising process may take from as little as 15 steps up to thousands of steps. Generally, the more steps we take, the … | Continue reading
Introduction Redis database is a widely recognized and essential piece of infrastructure, commonly used as a cache and often perceived as just a fast key-value store. However, over the years, it has evolved into a feature-rich data platform, offering much more than just speed. In … | Continue reading
May the Flows be with you! We are happy to announce that Jox library now has a new feature called Flows: bringing the rich concurrency features of Reactive Streams, while keeping the simplicity of synchronous Java programming! Inspired by Scala counter-part library Ox and Kotlin … | Continue reading
Rust turns 10 in 2025, making it a great time to celebrate the language and its community. #MyRustStory series features insights from community leaders shaping the Rust ecosystem. Want to meet them in person? Attend Rustikon, the first Rust conference in Poland! It's time for our … | Continue reading
The Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS), developed by the OWASP foundation, contains a list of requirements for building and maintaining secure applications. In this blog, I will share my insights from implementing this standard in an existing project, from a backen … | Continue reading
Training generative image models might be challenging, but properly evaluating them might be even more difficult. The most naive metric is human expert judgment. However, this is expensive, time-consuming, and prone to bias. Human experts are subjective to the task setup, motivat … | Continue reading
A Data Subject Request (DSR) is a formal request made by an individual (the "data subject") to an organization, asking to exercise their rights under various privacy regulations. These regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union and th … | Continue reading
Modern distributed systems often operate across multiple regions to ensure high availability and low latency. These systems frequently require tools to schedule HTTP requests for future execution, enabling workflows like notifications, deferred API calls, or time-based triggers. … | Continue reading
The image generation process can be unconditioned or conditioned by class embeddings or free-form texts. For condition image generation we may want to control the strength of the condition. The guidance scale in Diffusion Models is the same as the temperature in Large Language Mo … | Continue reading
There are two inevitable things in programming: the occurrence of errors and the need to handle them effectively. Errors are a natural part of software engineering, arising from unpredictable inputs, system limitations, or even human mistakes. However, the way we handle these err … | Continue reading
Even before IBM's Watson made headlines and Tesla had just started introducing electric vehicles, four programmer friends got together and thought of something that might not seem so strange now but was unusual back then: “Let’s work from home and start a company with no office, … | Continue reading
Apache Struts has long been a cornerstone framework for Java-based web applications, offering developers robust tools to build enterprise-grade solutions. With the release of Apache Struts 7.0.0, the framework takes a significant leap forward, introducing a host of new features a … | Continue reading
JVM was introduced in 1994 to run Java programs, but since long ago, it is not the only language you can run on it. There are many other languages leveraging its potential, and Scala is one of them. If you are a Java developer and you have heard or read something about Scala, you … | Continue reading
Get ready for our fifth annual deep dive into the future of tech! This compilation is a blend of engineering eyes and 15 years of experience as a software agency. Additionally, here you can find out how Maria’s and Michał’s predictions for 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 shaped up! Sec … | Continue reading
Today, we will tackle the topic associated with memory management and how you can ‘leak’ it on purpose in Rust. I’m new to the Rust ecosystem, and when I saw that we have a method called leak on the smart pointer type like Box, I got interested in why it's there and where it can … | Continue reading
Co-authored by Piotr Chabelski, Tomasz Godzik and Łukasz Biały and Adam Warski Time flies fast! 2024 will end sooner than you’d expect ;). But we’re already looking forward to 2025. What’s coming up, Scala-wise? Just as we’ve been committed to evolving the Scala ecosystem in the … | Continue reading
2024 was a wild year for AI. OpenAI’s ChatGPT got even broader adoption in everyone's daily lives. That common phrase “let’s Google it” is slowly becoming “Let me check in ChatGPT”. On the other hand, a wide selection of tools also uses their main competitor's solution - Claude.a … | Continue reading
Another one bites the… Rust 😉 Rust has consistently been voted the most loved programming language in Stack Overflow Developer surveys. Let’s see why through the eyes of Rust community leaders. Time for our next My Rust Story blog! Andre Bogus is a Rust contributor and me … | Continue reading
We're now living through the second Twitter/X exodus. The first one saw a massive spike of users of the Fediverse, more commonly known through its most popular implementation, Mastodon. This time around, it's Bluesky that's winning in the popularity contest, with as much as a mil … | Continue reading
On November 21st, we organized another edition of Lunch & Learn in Warsaw. At their core, Lunch & Learn meetings are more than just a series of technical talks. We want them to be a platform for exchanging ideas and best practices and learning from the hands-on experience of our … | Continue reading
As an ML Engineer with significant Software Engineering experience, I often find myself trying to reinvent the wheel, so to speak. After multiple hours of development, I often find a ready-to-use solution that works better than my custom code and, more importantly, does not need … | Continue reading
Welcome to My Rust Story blog series! As Rust turns 10 in 2025, it’s the perfect time to celebrate this language and its thriving community. In this series, you’ll get a glimpse into the insights and experiences of Rust community leaders who are shaping this vibrant ecosystem. Cu … | Continue reading
Docker has become extremely popular nowadays. It is lightweight, portable, self-contained, and thus great for microservices architecture. Docker containers make it easier to build software and isolate the environment, and they can be run in many different environments with differ … | Continue reading
Today, I will talk a bit about all the nitty-gritty details of static and dynamic function calling in Rust. I know that many of you associate that topic directly with polymorphism in Rust, but static vs. dynamic dispatch is not only about polymorphism, traits, and trait objects; … | Continue reading
An "orthodox" definition of functional programming (FP) states that it is programming with pure / mathematical / side-effect-free functions. But that's neither practical nor reflects how the term is used daily. What is functional programming, then? And even if we accept the above … | Continue reading
Kotlin is steadily gaining popularity. It’s the preferred language for Android development and is now making its way into web applications as well. While gradually replacing Java, Kotlin builds on Java’s established ecosystem. Created as a modern alternative, Kotlin addresses man … | Continue reading
Despite Rust’s rise in popularity and its recent wins in the Stack Overflow developer survey, it’s still often seen primarily as a systems language. Personally, I admire Rust’s style and conciseness, and I believe it has great potential beyond traditional systems programming, par … | Continue reading
In our series, we previously covered agriculture but also mentioned possible applications of chatbots in LegalTech, and MedTech. We now move to another sector that can benefit greatly from AI: the manufacturing industry. On the other hand, manufacturing companies already profit f … | Continue reading
Did you know that next year marks Rust's 10th anniversary? What better way to celebrate than at a conference, among fellow Rust developers and enthusiasts! We want to grow the Rust community and strengthen Poland's technical talent pool, just like we're doing for Scala. That’s wh … | Continue reading
Over the years, GraphQL has become quite a big deal. Many developers were excited about this technology, and I was one of them. Check out our 2021 series: GraphQL Overview Part 1: What is GraphQL? GraphQL Overview Part 2: Libraries GraphQL Overview Part 3: The Infrastructure a … | Continue reading
CCDAK certification focuses on developing Kafka applications and is directed to developers with basic hands-on experience with Apache Kafka. In this blog, I want to share the insights I gained while preparing for the Confluent Certified Developer certification in Apache Kafka. So … | Continue reading
Last week, I enjoyed attending ECCV 2024, which included exciting workshops on the applied side of computer vision, oral presentations from various computer vision specialists about their frontier research, and inspirational keynotes from industry titans. In this short blog post, … | Continue reading