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Agile
What is a Digital Product?
As product managers and product owners, the products we look after are fundamental to our work: they shape our day-to-day…
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Software Development
SQL Query on Mixed Schema Data Using Apache Drill
You may have heard this statement before: Apache Drill does schema discovery on-the-fly. What does that mean, and why should…
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Agile
The Case for and Against Estimates, Part 5
If you’ve been following the conversation, I discussed in Part 1 how I like agile roadmaps and gross estimation and/or…
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Agile
Management – what are we left with?
Over the last four month I have written a dozen blogs concerning management of software development. I will write more,…
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Core Java
Java 8: Converting Anonymous Classes to Lambda Expressions
Refactoring anonymous classes (that implement one single method) to lambda expressions, makes your code more succint and readable. For example,…
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Software Development
Microservices fault and latency tolerance using Netflix Hystrix
Recently in one of my project I got a requirement to execute a fallback call for a failing webservice call.…
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Scala
Scala notes – Futures – 3 (Combinators and Async)
In the previous parts of this post, we discussed about Futures and Promises. In this last part, we’ll compose Futures…
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Software Development
The name should express the intention
This time I will start with a code sample. Take a look at this: if (code.isComplexOrUnreadable()) { refactor(code); } Can…
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Core Java
Java Certification: To Cert or Not to Cert
Professional certification is always a bit of a controversial subject, with benefits vs. cost/time debated by those who are eligible. …
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