Reactive Programming for a demanding world
“building event-driven and responsive applications with RxJava”, slides by Mario Fusco. Good info on practical Rx usage in Java
(tags: rxjava rx reactive coding backpressure streams observables)
Chinese authorities compromise millions in cyberattacks
“[The] Great Firewall [of China] has switched from being a passive, inbound filter to being an active and aggressive outbound one.”
(tags: china great-firewall censorship cyberwarfare github ddos baidu future)
Avro, mail # dev – bytes and fixed handling in Python implementation – 2014-09-04, 22:54
More Avro trouble with “bytes” fields! Avoid using “bytes” fields in Avro if you plan to interoperate with either of the Python implementations; they both fail to marshal them into JSON format correctly. This is the official “avro” library, which produces UTF-8 errors when a non-UTF-8 byte is encountered