One of the early frustrations I had with Endpoints were run-time exceptions. Turns out, regardless of what the culprit is, the dev server (jetty 6)… Read More »
Google Cloud Endpoints – Watch for Missing Annotations
I spent almost three months working on my first “bigger” Android project. My goal was to build a simple gaming app backed by a cloud… Read More »
Google App Engine and Android – Pros and Cons, Challenges
I have recently enrolled to Introduction to Data Science. One of the very first assignments was Twitter sentiment analysis performed in Python. Leaving a whole… Read More »
Haversine formula application in Python
The pattern separates asynchronous I/O from the synchronous one. Main thread doesn’t block on incoming client requests and long-running operations are offloaded to a dedicated… Read More »
Concurrency patterns – Half-Sync / Half-Async
The pattern revolves around synchronization. In short, concurrent threads (clients) can only use the object via a set of synchronized methods. Only one method can… Read More »
Concurrency Patterns – Monitor Object
Active Object pattern decouples method execution from its invocation. Think asynchronous method invocation, callbacks etc. To avoid race conditions, incoming client requests are queued and… Read More »
Concurrency patterns – Active Object