Software Development
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Unleash the power of storing JSON in Postgres
An article by Sarah Mei titled “Why you should never use MongoDB” discusses the issues you’ll run into if you…
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The Evolution of Database Schemas using SQL + NoSQL
Part two of the two part series: Rethinking Database Design with Apache Drill In part one of this series, Drilling into…
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Don’t Blame Bad Software on Developers – Blame it on their Managers
There’s a lot of bad software out there. Unreliable, insecure, unsafe and unusable. It’s become so bad that some people…
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Build your own robot arm – remote control
In previous installment of this micro series, I discussed the way to control all the servos at once. Programmatically without…
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Postgres indexes
Recently, I had a situation where I needed to think how I was using Postgres indexes. I had a simple…
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The Real Success Story of Microservices Architectures
We hear the benefits of microservices architectures loud and clear; we hear the constant drum beat of how/why/by all means/etc…
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R: Wimbledon – How do the seeds get on?
Continuing on with the Wimbledon data set I’ve been playing with I wanted to do some exploration on how the…
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Wikipedia’s Definition of a Software Bug Is Wrong
Here is what Wikipedia says at the time of this writing: A software bug is an error, flaw, failure, or…
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Good Programmers Write Bug-Free Code, Don’t They?
Good programmers create fewer bugs while bad programmers cause more. Sounds logical, doesn’t it? However, there is a lot of…
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