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Tom Walton

A Brief Summary of Retry Strategies

The goal of this post is to help you pick the right retry strategy for your use case. This will enable you to overcome transient API…

8 min readMar 1, 2022

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A Brief Summary of Retry Strategies

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Tom Walton

Return nothing, with Java Optionals

In Java, it is common for a method to return null, or throw an exception, when it cannot return a value. In this post I aim to convince you…

3 min readFeb 1, 2022

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Tom Walton

Experimenting with AWS Lambda Cold Starts

AWS Lambda is a great serverless compute platform. It is extremely elastic, scaling up and down to meet your workload as required, so you…

10 min readJan 3, 2022

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Experimenting with AWS Lambda Cold Starts

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Tom Walton

Where to Log Exceptions

Logging exceptions that occur is important for understanding why a program, or part of it, failed. However, bad logging practices can make…

3 min readDec 18, 2021

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Tom Walton

AWS Lambda-SQS Integration — Scaling Surprises

Using SQS queues with Lambda functions is a very commonly used pattern, and for good reason. It’s a highly horizontally scalable way of…

4 min readSep 21, 2021

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AWS Lambda-SQS Integration — Scaling Surprises

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Tom Walton

Fail-fast with Java’s requireNonNull method

Null pointer exceptions can be a tricky bug because they can occur far from where the root cause of the problem is. A null value may be…

2 min readAug 21, 2021

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Tom Walton

Tom Walton

I write about software engineering practices and features I have discovered, which I did not find intuitive at first. Mostly on Java and AWS right now.

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