Software Development
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Backdoors, Sabotage or Just Plain Stupidity
Someone on your development team, or a contractor or a consultant, or one of your sys admins, or a bad…
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What’s the strangest bug you’ve squashed?
As software engineers we’re tasked with creating solutions to customer’s business problems. Being complex systems, every once in a while…
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Tuning Hadoop & Cassandra : Beware of vNodes, Splits and Pages
When running Hadoop jobs against Cassandra, you will want to be careful about a few parameters. Specifically, pay special attention…
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Planning software development with a time machine
I have an amazing time machine that lets me think better about projects. This is part 3 in a series…
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KISS With Essential Complexity
Accidental complexity, in a broader sense, is the complexity that developers add to their code and that is not necessary…
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It’s the Little Things: The PL/SQL NULL Statement, and why Every Language Should have One
Syntax is one of those topics. One of those emotional topics that lead to very very very important discussions. I…
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Meta-cycles in technology choices
I’ve been working on my keynote for QCon Beijing and looking at technology trends and choices since the 1950s. One…
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Microservice Design Patterns
The main characteristics of a microservices-based application are defined in Microservices, Monoliths, and NoOps. They are functional decomposition or domain-driven design, well-defined…
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R: Snakes and ladders markov chain
A few days ago I read a really cool blog post explaining how Markov chains can be used to model…
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