Java Streams API in brief

First, let’s define what a stream is in Java 8: a sequence of functions, actions, inputs, and outputs (better defined as a “pipeline”). Streams API provides functional-style operations to transform these sequences; sources for them can contain arrays, collections, files, etc. In general terms, streams are Monads: “Monads represent computations to be...

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Does it worth to work as a freelancer?

BACKGROUND Usually many of us graduates from college have dreamed of working in a large company with great salary, prestige and traveling around the world; or maybe we’ve had the “million-dollar idea” and we’ve put tears, sweat and blood to boot that beloved startup and appear in Wired as the...

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Cross-Platform Communications: gRPC Server and Client: .NET Core

When we are developing web solutions consisting of several projects, it is very common communicate between each other, and the common solutions are proprietary solutions (like .NET Remoting), or standard solutions like REST or SOAP. Recently, I discovered gRPC as the Google solution for Cross-Platform communications, allowing the developers to communicate...

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ASP.NET Core Basics – Part 2

Now, we continue with the series ASP.NET Core Basics. At this time we are been focused in MVC specific topics, which will be covered in a 7 mins video. Contents: MVC. Controllers MVC. Models and Views ViewModel Post/Redirect/Get Model Validation Links: MVC Pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model–view–controllerPost/Redirect/Get Pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post/Redirect/GetGithub Repository: https://github.com/alexis-dotnet/NewsApp_Stage2The New York Times API: https://developer.nytimes.com/ Español: Conceptos Básicos ASP.NET...

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