Software Development
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Examples of caching backfiring on performance
In 2015 it should not surprise anyone that caching frequently used data is likely to improve the performance of the…
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Interface over-segregation
Programmers easily spot bloated interfaces, and usually carry with them an assortment of, “Knives and stabbing weapons,” for just such…
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Mysql versions prior to 5.7 do not fully support two phase commit
While doing some tests for the recently released generic JCA adapter which is capable of binding remote calls to microservices…
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Web Services Top-down development
In top-down development, both client-side and server-side developers use WSDL (the top) to produce the artifacts (the bottom) necessary for…
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Global Data Consistency in Distributed (Microservice) Architectures
I’ve published a generic JCA resource adapter on Github available from Maven (ch.maxant:genericconnector-rar) with an Apache 2.0 licence. This let’s…
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Spark, Parquet and S3 – It’s complicated
(A version of this post was originally posted in AppsFlyer’s blog. Also special thanks to Morri Feldman and Michael Spector…
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Events Don’t Eliminate Dependencies
Event (or message) driven systems (in their two flavors) have some benefits. I’ve already discussed why I think they are…
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Web Services Bottom-up development
The first generation of Web services tools for Java was targeted at exposing existing code as Web services. This approach…
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Building A Chat App With Codename One Part 3
In the previous section we went over the login with Google process, in this section we’ll go over the login…
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