Software Development
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The “Done” Fallacy
One of the earliest ideas you learn as an agile practitioner is “Done, Done, Done”. There’s a lot of thinking…
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Blue-Green Deployment With a Single Database
A blue-green deployment is a way to have incremental updates to your production stack without downtime and without any complexity…
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Top 10 Lists for Designing and Writing Secure and Safe Software
If you care about writing secure code, should know all about these Top 10 lists: OWASP Top 10 The OWASP…
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R: Scraping the release dates of github projects
Continuing on from my blog post about scraping Neo4j’s release dates I thought it’d be even more interesting to chart…
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Discovering the Computer Science Behind Postgres Indexes
This is the last in a series of Postgres posts that Pat Shaughnessy wrote based on his presentation at the…
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5 Great Snacks For the Coder’s Brain
You’re coding and you’ve been in the flow for a few hours. Everything is going just fine, but then hunger…
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Structural simplicity
You’ve all seen Rich Hickey’s excellent Simple-made-easy presentation, in which Mr Hickey trawls the dictionary to remind us that, “Simple,”…
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Following a Select Statement Through Postgres Internals
This is the third in a series of Postgres posts that Pat Shaughnessy wrote based on his presentation at the…
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Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs)
In this post I’ll mention RDD paper, Resilient Distributed Datasets: A Fault-Tolerant Abstraction for In-Memory Cluster Computing. If you didn’t check…
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