umit / things-i-believe.md

Created February 11, 2020 08:30 — forked from stettix/things-i-believe.md

Things I believe

This is a collection of the things I believe about software development. I have worked for years building backend and data processing systems, so read the below within that context.

Agree? Disagree? Feel free to let me know at @JanStette. See also my blog at www.janvsmachine.net.

Fundamentals

Keep it simple, stupid. You ain't gonna need it.

umit / README-Template.md

Created September 17, 2020 07:28 — forked from PurpleBooth/README-Template.md

A template to make good README.md

Project Title

One Paragraph of project description goes here

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

umit / 0-interceptors-are-functions-too.md

Created December 6, 2023 07:01 — forked from quad/0-interceptors-are-functions-too.md

Interceptors Are Functions Too

I could not agree more with my colleague and friend Travis Johnson's opinion that "[INTERCEPTORS ARE SO COOL][iasc]!" In that post, he succinctly describes the [Interceptor pattern][pattern] as used adroitly by [OkHttp][okhttp]. But, as is often the case, I believe a complicated object-oriented pattern obscures the simple functional gem within it.

What is an Interceptor?

I'll quote liberally from [OkHttp's documentation on the topic][okhttp-interceptor]:

Interceptors are a powerful mechanism that can monitor, rewrite, and retry calls. […] >