If you call a remote REST service, you perhaps want to retry automatically upon recoverable errors. Make sure to test that code - so that you won't end up surprised that it is completely broken, as I…
Telia Norway's IT division had summer interns for the first time this summer. 10 students got placed into some of our teams and worked alongside us from mid-june to the end of august. For the students…
Full Stack Feast is an internal mini conference in Telia Norway, that aims to bring together developers, designers, product owners and anyone else
involved in software engineering in our company. To…
During our regular "tech lunch," we have got our brains blown by the talk Lucas Cavalcanti & Edward Wible - Exploring four hidden superpowers of Datomic (slides) that summarizes the key benefits a…
I have just gone through the painful experience of troubleshooting a remote Java webapp in a production-like environment and longed for Clojure's explore-and-edit-running-app REPL. I want to…
In Clojure we use again and again the same data structures and have many functions operating on them. Java programmers, on the other hand, create a unique class for every grouping of data, with its…
As a Clojure developer thrown into an "enterprise" Java/Spring/Groovy application, I have a unique opportunity to experience and think about the differences between functional (FP) and object-oriented…
We've recently been developing a cross platform application. In its core, it is not cross-platform as in mobile versus desktop, but moreso one language intertwined with another. Let's walk through our…
"It will only take about an hour," I said to her. Two days later, a pull request awaits review. Where has all that time gone? What are the sources of delay in software development and how can we make…
