Posts authored by Paul Roberts:
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
Pondering some Scala performance questions
Paul RobertsThe Scala compiler is a fascinating tool which powers a large proportion of the Guardian’s infrastructure. But sometimes the work that it does can seem somewhat mysterious. Guardian Scala developer Paul Roberts explores in detail one aspect of this mystery and looks at how understanding it can help us write code more effectively
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Taming timeouts with a Promise
Paul RobertsSome notes from the Guardian’s software development team on experimenting with different ways of handling timeouts in JavaScript
