Notes on API Design
This is from a presentation I gave at work about how to design APIs that don’t suck. You can download the whole presentation from here
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Hi I'm Juan! I'm a software developer from Argentina 🇦🇷living in the Bay Area. On this blog I share the things I learn on software development and other related topics.
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This is from a presentation I gave at work about how to design APIs that don’t suck. You can download the whole presentation from here
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In this post I’ll introduce the concept of Feature Toggles as a release alternative to FeatureBranches. This technique is also known as: Feature toggles, Feature switches, Feature flippers, etc.
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Here I’ll show you how you can email a Google Form daily, weekly or whatever. I’ll achieve this by using Google App Scripts. Here we go
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So I was learning to animate Views in Android using this video and was having trouble with the second time the animation runned. First run the objects end up in their destination, second run it was mayhem. I had fallen victim to the great misunderstanding everyone makes about Android animations: they are just a magic trick.
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We were having a race condition on a server which was “fixed” by adding an sleep to the thread to check again later. Yes, it sucked, so I decided to make something more sophisticated and went looking for a library to handle retries with multiple strategies. That’s when I first read about Guava Retrying.
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Remember my last post on value types using Google’s AutoValue? Today while doing some work on a new Android project I’m starting I thought: ‘Great chance to use AutoValue!’. Guess what, there is a port of Google AutoValue for the Android platform.
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Value types is a fancy name for those classes where you have to implement equals() and hashCode(), and usually toString(). You’ve probably wrote thounsands of those classes, but have you ever wonder why do you have write almost 50 lines of code to express such a common concept?
Implementing compare() and compareTo() methods was never fun. Luckily Guava provides an utility that makes comparison methods easier to write and more pleasing to the eye.
I’m starting a series of posts on Guava (Google’s core libraries). Today I am going to start with null, how to use it, and how to avoid it when necessary.
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There are billions of blogs written by more experienced and talented devs, there is stackoverflow.com and communities for each tool and language ever created, so why bother creating yet another dev blog? Here are the two reasons why I started this blog.
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