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In this text, the final summary of my categories theory series, I will use my spotlight and take a closer look at the relations between all three previously described functional containers, namely: Functor, Monad, and Applicative.
Below, you will find a comparison of them in terms of:
In today’s text, I want to take a closer look at gRPC and REST, probably two of the most commonly used approaches for creating API nowadays.
I will start with a short characteristic of both tools — what they are and what they can offer. Then I will compare them according to seven categories, in my opinion, most crucial for modern-day systems.
Ah, writing chats. So simple yet so complex. Yes, writing chats — as in coding them, not chatting (though that might prove to be problematic too, but that’s a whole different problem). If you’re looking for a step-by-step tutorial on implementing the backend for a basic multichannel chat, read on.
So let’s dive into the technicalities. To give you some more details, the service will be implemented as a mix of a simple REST API and a Web Socket app. To make this more interesting, I decided to use Akka-related libraries and typed actors in as many numbers as possible.