Ben Christensen

Engineering at @Facebook
Previously @Netflix & Apple

[Ben Christensen @benjchristensen]

@OlehDokuka @nipafx @p_bouda @bsideup @amizrash @gunnarmorling @antonarhipov @BrianGoetz @relizarov @RSocketIO Yes, it was buffer bloat at proxies/load-balancers in between the origin and destination of streaming data that led to it. We created a hacked version that solved the immediate problem and then formalized it with RSocket.

[Ben Christensen @benjchristensen]

@prendofficial No it was not. I didn’t ask for it to be taken down and wasn’t aware.

[Reactive Foundation @reactiveoss]

🌦️ "#Reactive principles embrace the inherent challenges that come with distributed systems, which are a foundational characteristic of #cloud." — @benjchristensen

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[Laurie @laurieontech]

If you are a lead in any capacity your primary job is no longer to be the best coder in the room. Your job is to invest in learning the skills you need to effectively communicate and grow those you lead. Your words have the potential to sit with people for years, act accordingly.

[Ben Christensen @benjchristensen]

@NiteshKant Hi! Yeah ... it’s been a long time since I’ve gotten on here.

[Ben Christensen @benjchristensen]

@elonmusk Wanted PowerWall for time-shifting grid (as per website). Was told I needed solar first. So I did that. Now I go to get Powerwall. Told it now won't time-shift grid because I have solar. Told I'd need to remove solar. Wat?

[Ben Christensen @benjchristensen]

@michaelhart @rusmeshenberg @elonmusk Yeahhhh, I saw that :-/

[Ben Christensen @benjchristensen]

@rusmeshenberg @elonmusk Apparently I do. 🤷‍♂️

[Ben Christensen @benjchristensen]

@sirinath @netflix @NetflixResearch I don’t have any contacts in the research side of things.

[Ben Christensen @benjchristensen]

@colbertphilippe I completely missed this … all professional docs ended up on the Github wikis.

[Ben Christensen @benjchristensen]

@Anusien @GOTOcon For example, merging two Single types results in an Observable.

[Ben Christensen @benjchristensen]

@Anusien @GOTOcon A type called Single was added to RxJava to represent single items. It similar to Future but lazy and integrates better with Observable.

[Ben Christensen @benjchristensen]

@timfox Welcome!

[Werner Vogels @Werner]

There is no compression algorithm for experience. https://t.co/FnVtQLLVWA

[Ben Christensen @benjchristensen]

@CadetAdrien for example, https://t.co/JV7PNPTxZx to deal with nested generics and covariance

[Ben Christensen @benjchristensen]

@CadetAdrien generic covariance in Java is horribly difficult, particularly when nested. I have lost many many hours to this topic.

[Ben Christensen @benjchristensen]

@thomasnield9727 glad you’re tackling v2. Writing a book is a lot of work. Good luck!

[Ben Christensen @benjchristensen]

@thomasnield9727 I prefer Observable.create in almost all other situations as it remains lazy, cancellable, composable, etc.

[Ben Christensen @benjchristensen]

@thomasnield9727 really the only reason to explicitly use a subject is to expose an imperative input source to eagerly publish events to.

[Ben Christensen @benjchristensen]

@thomasnield9727 with Observable (pure push), they are useful in some cases but honestly are generally not appropriate and cause grief.