Slay Dragons and Master Concurrency

A fun little game to find the flaws of multi-threaded programs.

https://deadlockempire.github.io/

Read: Social Engineering Amazon In Action

You can be very secure with your details. If you use third-party services, then you just might have opened backdoor access to your information.

https://medium.com/@espringe/amazon-s-customer-service-backdoor-be375b3428c4#.xm1bd48ez

Video: Apache Samza (Kappa Architecture)

Newest big programming topic to me: Kappa Architecture

It's been around for a long time, and it's about time I jump on board. Streams everywhere.

"Turning the database inside out with Apache Samza" by Martin Kleppmann

Video: Dynamic Typing > Static Typing?

A must-watch for anybody that's interested in type systems or thinking about programming language design. Then, the comments after the article are a great read for more views.

Dynamic Typing > Static Typing?

Video: Smaller Serialized Data

Another great episode from Google's Android Performance Patterns series: Smaller Serialized Data

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBxeHkvJoOQ&list=TLVywPBnnWNrcyMTAxMjAxNg

Java Puzzler

I thought I already knew about Java's static and dynamic binding rules, but after trying this code snippet, I had to learn a few more things. Looks like those binding rules don't actually cover arguments and parameters.

public class Test {

    private static int count = 0;

    public boolean equals(Test testje) {
        System.out.println("count = " + count);
        return false;
    }

    public static void main(String [] args) {
        Object t1 = new Test();
        Object t2 = new Test();
        Test t3 = new Test();
        Object o1 = new Object();

        ++count; t1.equals(t2);
        ++count; t1.equals(t3);
        ++count; t3.equals(o1);
        ++count; t3.equals(t3);
        ++count; t3.equals(t2);
    }
}

Source

Code Intuitiveness

A test for intuitiveness. Ask a non-programmer what some code does.