Author: Jonathan Breedlove

Client side retries are used to avoid surfacing unnecessary exceptions back to the caller in the case of transient network or service issues.  In these situations a subsequent retry will likely succeed.  Although this process incurs a time penalty, it is often better than the noise from oversensitive client side exceptions.  Retries are less useful […]

Of the many changes brought about with Java 8, the Stream API is perhaps one of the most exciting.  Java 8 streams, which are unrelated to Java’s I/O streams, allow you to perform a series of mutations and transformations against a collection of items.  You can think of a stream as a form of data […]