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Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco | Apr 2023

Bob was a nice guy. We had an overlapping tenure at Google in the 2000s. He was one of the original authors of the Guice dependency injection framework: https://github.com/google/guice. When I was earning Java readability at Google, I was fortunate to have had him assigned as a reviewer. Having the review work so smoothly alleviated a lot of the imposter syndrome I felt at the time. I felt like a million bucks afterwards. The compassion and humility he brought to the table made a world of difference.

His murder represents a huge loss; he left a very positive impression on me.

Bob 'crazybob' Lee Was Killed | Apr 2023

Bob created Guice [1] and was involved in a number of JSR specifications. Bob also lead the initial development of Androids core libraries before moving on to the payment industry. He was a well known figure in the Java world. RIP.

[1] https://github.com/google/guice

ᚣ the Rune Programming Language | Nov 2022

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Would Google Guice count?

https://github.com/google/guice

Hello Go | Apr 2018

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> it specifically guards against inheritance/factory/DI hell by offering a unique type system

Many people, including Google engineers (https://github.com/google/guice) see DI as useful tool, not hell. But nothing prevents you to write your java code without DI if you don't like it.

Modern Functional Programming: The Onion Architecture | Sep 2016

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Because of things like: https://github.com/google/guice

4k LOC of "lightweight" garbage for... variable lookups?

Show HN: Station307 – Stream files between cURL, Wget and/or browser | Mar 2016

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Thank you, and of course you may.

The backend is written in Java(8) and it is built with the following (noteworthy) components :

  Netty[1] - Extremely fast and stable Java networking framework,
             serves static files and relays traffic 
             (both tasks are custom implementations)

  Guice[2] - IoC container by Google, nice for keeping the code clean

  jOOQ[3] - I log some statistics in PostgreSQL 
            (file size, content type, transfer time - but no filenames). 
            If you're comfortable with SQL jOOQ is a real breeze to use.

The backend is hosted on the cheapest VM option at Digital Ocean (Amsterdam region), (which seems to be holding up pretty well so far :). I do run PostgreSQL on another $5 VM, so the Station307 server only has to worry about serving static content and moving large chunks of bytes around. SSL certificates are kindly provided by Let's Encrypt[4].

For the frontend, I know for a fact it uses left-pad (babel-core)... Written in JavaScript (ES2015 + JSX) and built with :

  Mithril[5] - Fast, small and simple React-like framework, quite a joy to use.

  Bootstrap[6] - Because not having to worry about L&F is quite nice. 
                 Trimmed it down a bit by only importing the parts I needed (SCSS).

And I think that's about it. If there's anything else you'd like to know, let me know!

  [1] http://netty.io
  [2] https://github.com/google/guice
  [3] http://www.jooq.org
  [4] https://letsencrypt.org
  [5] http://mithril.js.org
  [6] https://getbootstrap.com

edit: formatting D:

Asynchronous IO in Rust | Sep 2015

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The specific systems I'm thinking of were Google-internal, but there's a close public analogue with Guice & Dagger:

https://github.com/google/guice

https://github.com/square/dagger

Imagine injecting Futures into your code. Now imagine injecting them, but having the Provider record a lot of metadata about who you were calling, how you were calling it, how long it took, whether an error occurred, letting an SRE turn off the call, etc.