Road To Angular 2 – Reactive Programming (RxJS)

Welcome to the first stop on the Road To Angular 2! The new version of Angular isn’t as simple as the previous one. It introduces a lot of new, hot and trendy stuff, so you have to prepare yourself before reaching the final destination! In this series we’ll introduce you to: Reactive Programming ES6 features […]

Java integration tests with Spring

Java integration tests with Spring

Recently, we had to write integration tests because a connection with the database was required in almost all aspects of our business logic. Writing only unit tests without a DB connection didn’t make much sense – we were only able to check if the API returns a proper error message in cases like no records […]

5 Things to Know About Ad Tech for Smartwatches

Ad tech for wearables is dubbed the ‘third wave of digital advertising’, and rightly so: advertisers are set to spend $68.6 million by 2019 on smartwatch ads by 2019, up from an estimated $1.5 million this year. It’s a good bet – people are buying wearables, and the smartwatch – like the Apple Watch – […]

Monitoring with Grafana and InfluxDB

Monitoring with Grafana and InfluxDB

Having multiple distributed services can generate a great deal of data, including health statuses, state changes and many more. One of our projects required a service which could monitor such information and display it in a friendly manner to the user. One of the problems was that we had no influence on some of the […]