In this episode of "A Bootiful Podcast," Josh Long interviews Victor Rentea at Devoxx UK. They discuss Rentea's two talks at the conference: one on REST API design principles and common mistakes, and another on functional programming antipatterns. They delve into the nuances of REST, the anti-hype around SOAP, and the religious adherence to nouns in URLs. The conversation shifts to functional programming, touching on mutating state in stream pipelines, the overuse of monads and optionals, and the balance between object-oriented and functional approaches in languages like Java and Kotlin. They also explore the complexities and potential pitfalls of reactive programming with Reactor, Java streams, lazy evaluation, and parallel streams, emphasizing the importance of understanding functional programming principles to avoid common mistakes. Rentea concludes by advising developers to write both imperative and functional forms of code, evaluate them, and choose the most maintainable option.
