A couple of months ago my team had its first experience working with Java fibers, we needed to make our main application work asynchronously. In this 3 part series, I will share my team’s experience and how we deploy and implement Java fibers in production. We will cover what fibers are, how to use them, their pros and cons, and their internals, all in a mix between guide and blog describing our experience. Fibers are a sort of lightweight threads, that are meant to address performance, scale and code structure in our applications, they can work together or replace threads. If you are dealing with concurrency, code structure and asynchronous challenges, or you are just interested in learning this technology, this blog post series is for you. The first part of this series is an overview of what fibers are, the next parts are diving deeper into the technology and […]
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Regression Testing a Complex UI Web applications are a mischievous bunch. When they are born they are usually small, clean and orderly, but they may grow up to become complex and error prone monsters. Each feature added to the mix increases the chance of a new bug appearing, a promise that is usually fulfilled. When developing a large and complex web application, we need to be able to continually check regressions and verify that everything that worked until now is still working. So that at least we won’t break more than we need to. Taboola is are a web company, and must deliver on a very rapid pace. We ship many features on a continuous basis. Under such circumstances no matter how big your QA team is, it will never manage to cover the entire system for every delivered feature. This means an extensive testing automation framework is a must. […]