I’m all for n boring tech and all, and leveraging the simplest thing that can work. But arguing against streams? You mean reactive streams?
These have helped me replace megabytes of poorly written concurrent/parallel crap with a few lines of stream orchestration. I find it interesting that our experiences diverge so wildly.
Then again, I’ve had to rewrite some terribly clever code, some downright diabolical, so that could be part of it.
Reactive streams are great. I wrote a data transformation toolkit which used reactive streams for the data plane (passing small RDF documents along the pipes) and the Jena rules engine for the control plane (assembling the reactive stream pipeline and tearing it down)
I later worked with some people who built something with a similar architecture -- their system didn't get the same answer every time because they didn't handle teardown properly but that's a common problem and not hard to fix. Lots of people forget to do it, even with Executors.
These have helped me replace megabytes of poorly written concurrent/parallel crap with a few lines of stream orchestration. I find it interesting that our experiences diverge so wildly.
Then again, I’ve had to rewrite some terribly clever code, some downright diabolical, so that could be part of it.