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Seven Schools, Four Cities, and Three Countries Later

Growing up, I wondered what lay across country borders. What makes their country special compared to any other? Why is their food so different from ours? I was always curious about what people from…

The Road to Single DEX

See my conference talk here: Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmI-NZ1akow SpeakerDeck: https://speakerdeck.com/jaredsburrows/the-road-to-single-dex-gradle-summit-2017 Original Post: The…

Converting callback async calls to RxJava

Since we started using RxJava in our Yammer Android app we’ve often encountered APIs that don’t follow its reactive model, requiring us to do some conversion work to integrate them with the rest of…

Chaining multiple sources with RxJava

This is a very straightforward pattern, but things can get tricky real fast when we consider certain factors: I’ve been fiddling with RxJava lately since it’s all the rage in the Android community…

ActiveRecord stole my data and now I want it back!

Microservices have been a popular topic recently. People argue over whether you should start with microservices or evolve there from a single ‘monolithic’ app. Maybe in a well designed app…

Moving Code Forward

Everybody loves a good rewrite. It feels great to throw away a crusty, years-old codebase and replace it with something shiny and new. Rewrites come with some serious tradeoffs though, and in a lot…