Software Development
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About Personal Productivity
Thinking aloud about productivity, what I’m currently doing about it and where I think I need to improve a lot.…
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Data Science: Do the Numbers – Part 1
As a lifelong computational scientist (and now data scientist) I have always been fascinated with numbers, especially lists and tables…
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Microservices Use Cases
A few months ago I wrote a piece in defence of monoliths and then gave a talk about it. Overall,…
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Example of using extensions in Swift
Recently I needed a image in my iOS app that was oscillating. I ran into an example of Swift code…
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Cutting Corners
The pressure to deliver yesterday is strong. If it’s not customers nagging you, it’s project managers breathing down your neck…
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Clustering And Scaling Services
Many will tell you that they have a scalable system. After all, scaling is easy. Buy a server, install WebLogic…
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Impress Your Coworkers by Using SQL UNPIVOT!
I’ve recently encountered a very interesting question on Stack Overflow by an unnamed user. The question was about generating a…
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The Short History of CI/CD Tools
Jenkins (forked from Hudson after a dispute with Oracle) has been around for a long time and established itself as…
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Premature Microservices
Building your app from the very start as microservices is not a great idea! Their deployment is complex – regardless…
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