Another year, another QCon in London. Unfortunately this time I've only been able to attend the last day (Friday), but at least it's a day full of microservices-related talks. Microservices are the new kid in the block and raising a lot of interest. In this post I've written a summary of the main point of talks.

Last September Gumtree went responsive. This has been a long project with a heavy Front-end component, as you could expect. But plenty of changes were done behind the scenes. One of them, as you can guess by the title, was integrating Hystrix. Let's see why and how.

I hear people saying it and I say it my self very often lately... Nothing should be released without a Pull Request! The thing is that even I don’t raise them anymore And yes, I say that with shame...

-- myself :)

At Gumtree we decided to use facebook's react.js framework for some of our administrative tasks that we performed on a regular basis. For one of the task it was creating a system for modifying the categories that users post classifieds on. Being a fairly new framework creating this tree view proved a bit of a challenge, initially drawing out the whole tree on load and then collapsing everything proved to be a really slow task (even using react.js), possibly due to the size of Gumtree's category tree. We also knew that it would be a recursive call as a node may have children and they may have children etc.

In October I attended the last of the three-day JAX London 2014 Conference. In this post, I will briefly write about the talks that took place in the main room (the Auditorium) and share the links to the speakers' material.