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Software Development
Where Is This Coming From?
In enterprise software the top one question you have to answer as a developer almost every day is “Where is…
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Software Development
One-Time Passwords Do Not Provide Non-Repudiation
The title is obvious and it could’ve been a tweet rather than a blogpost. But let me expand. OTP, or…
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Software Development
Solving Problems Properly Is Often Not Viable
How many times you, as a software expert, saw some software or process and thought “damn, this can be done…
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Enterprise Java
Near Real-Time Indexing With ElasticSearch
Choosing your indexing strategy is hard. The Elasticsearch documentation does have some general recommendations, and there are some tips from…
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Core Java
A Disk-Backed arraylist
It sometimes happens that your list can become too big to fit in memory and you have to do something…
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Enterprise Java
Restoring Cassandra Priam Backup With sstableloader
I’ve previously written about setting up Cassandra and Priam for backup and cluster management. The example that I gave for…
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Software Development
Cybersecurity Is Very Important
A few months ago an essay titled “Cybersecurity is not very important” appeared. The essay is well written and interesting…
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Software Development
Let’s Annotate Our Methods With The Features They Implement
Writing software consists of very little actual “writing”, and much more thinking, designing, reading, “digging”, analyzing, debugging, refactoring, aligning and…
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Software Development
Idea: A Generic P2P Network Client
Every now and then one has a half-baked idea about some project that they aren’t likely to be able to…
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