SQS, Simple Message Queue, is a message-queue-as-a-service offering from Amazon Web Services. It supports only a handful of messaging operations, far from the complexity of e.g. AMQP, but thanks to the easy to understand interfaces, and the as-a-service nature, it is very useful in a number of situations. But how…
Category: testing
MacWire 0.2: Scopes are simple!
MacWire generates new instance creation code of given classes, using values in the enclosing type for constructor parameters, with the help of Scala Macros. DI container replacement. Version 0.2 has just landed! First things first … First, some bad news. Due to limitations of the current macros implementation in Scala…
Veripacks 0.1 – Verify Package Specifications
Using some free time during my Christmas & New Year break, I worked on a new project, which implements some of the ideas from my earlier blog “Let’s turn packages into a module system”. The project is Veripacks; it allows to specify which classes from a package should be accessible,…
Unexpected problems with Apache and mod_rewrite under high load
In one of the projects that we are currently working on we have a fairly typical setup with one server (Apache with mod_rewrite) proxying traffic to backend servers. We also have some automated performance/stress tests. The whole system worked fine with around 250 requests/second hitting the server (http get/post calls)….