In those days when you couldn't open any IT magazine without being exposed to emetic terms like service (microservice (function as a service(...))) one morning while picking up a a dirty stocking from the bathroom's floor in order to migrate it to the washing machine (I remember that moment as if it were today) this one fatal thought struck me. Why not make it really micro, like AND, OR and NOT as a service, also +, - etc., you get the idea. This implies that you can just compile your code into service(microservice(...)), imagine this boost in efficiency and scenes of the production teams in high alert because the NOT service experiences excessive load, Kubernetes is glowing red hot, we have to call Iceland to activate the emergency backup pool and then analyze the issue asap... And of course the thing must be event sourced, so we have this buzzword covered too and are persistent and recoverable to the point where we can run our applications backwards. But how to name that stuff? Guess what, nanoservice was already taken at that time, but pico was still available. Don't know if that's still true today, because since then I was completely absorbed to see if this can be made to work. Big rabbit hole, huge one. Yesterday I took the first shower in years, because I commited a version that executed a quicksort on integers that could be terminated, recovered and resumed from any point of its execution. Actually it takes the list of ~2700 events logged while sorting 4 integers, iteratively truncates it one by one, then recovers, resumes and asserts the result for each shortened list. Admittedly it is implemented with in-process actors rather than Kubernetes-deployable executables, but it confirms the concept. Now I think, this is as cool as it is monstrous, but is there a reasonable application for it, unlike sorting? Does anybody has a use case? Is there any place on the planet where people talk about stuff like that apart from lambda-the-ultimate where its all abstract? I'd be glad about hints. I guess, I'll automate my di

Building a web scraper I had the pleasure to abuse JavaFX's WebView browser module by modifying byte code to hook onto http requests and the trick of this post to get at the url in an intercepted UrlLoader call. I wouldn't care using it in production. But also in test, I'd like to mention.