Software Development
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I hate bugs (A rant)
Rant on. In software terms quality does not mean walnut dashboards, it does not mean gold plating, it does not…
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Fault Tolerance in Go
In distributed systems, failure is inevitable. Eventually, some service will become bogged down and consequently won’t respond quickly enough or,…
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Making Your Boss Happy Is a False Objective
We all have bosses. We also have customers who pay us for running their software projects. They are my bosses…
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How to Cut Corners and Stay Cool
You have a task assigned to you, and you don’t like it. You are simply not in the mood. You…
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SweetHomeHub: Home Control with Raspberry Pi and MQTT – Part 1
Since quite a long time I am working on my universal Raspberry Pi based Intertechno-Remote (see former posts 1 2…
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Fixing Elasticsearch Allocation Issues
Last week I was working with some Logstash data on my laptop. There are around 350 indices that contain the…
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Plug into the Wall: Interfaces to the Outside World
Just to be clear, this article isn’t about interfacing with hardware, though what it says does apply a little bit.…
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Introduction to MongoDB Security
Last week at the Paris MUG, I had a quick chat about security and MongoDB, and I have decided to…
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Pairing Patterns
Pair programming is hard. When most developers start pairing it feels unnatural. After a lifetime of coding alone, headphones on,…
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