Software Development

I see lots of customers moving to microservices, (whether they should or not is a topic for a different post), and in doing so they are attempting to solve some difficult organizational scaling problems. The details of going to microservice architecture often trades some old problems for new ones, however. Most of the customers I speak with have a strategy ...

To put it mildly, cryptocurrency is an incredibly popular topic right now. Much of the hype around it tends to be focused on the physical value that these currencies represent. However, I believe something even more precious lies under the hood of cryptocurrencies: the concept of blockchain. The ideas around blockchain are significant because they’re the engine that enables cryptocurrency ...

Indonesian, or Bahasa Indonesia, is a very approachable language for westerners. It uses latin characters, there’s a clear structure, no tenses, no gender or plural forms and it contains many foreign words (as a German I especially enjoy the dutch influenced terms like knalpot for exhaust pipe). If you’re growing up outside of Asia Indonesia might be a quite distant ...

During the last few months of 2017, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were being talked about by some media sources on a daily basis. These currencies, which had been around for years, were suddenly experiencing major growth. For example, the price of bitcoin has grown from just under $750 in January 2017 to $5,856.10 in mid-October 2017. This massive growth made ...

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There’s no better time to start planning for 2020 and make sure your application is ready for the upcoming changes and trends. Welcome to the world of tomorrow! Although 2020 seems far away, it’ll be here before we know. Even though we’re more than a year away, analysts and research companies are releasing reports and projections of 2020 trends in the ...

Managing a small engineering team — whether it’s one team within a larger engineering organization, such as Facebook, Google, or AirBnb, or whether it’s the entire engineering team — can be a tough gig. Why? Because you’re tasked with coordinating a group of skilled professionals around a common vision: the delivery of a complex piece of software. And it doesn’t ...

One of the challenges in microservices architecture is the ability to debug issues. A simple user action might trigger a chain of downstream microservice calls. It would be tedious to trace the logs related to a particular user action across microservices. In addition to that, we might want to track down why a certain microservice call is taking so much ...

Previous Tutorial: Azure Functions – Part 1: Getting Started In the last tutorial we created a simple Azure Function that returned a value. I’m going to improve on that project and return an HTML page from the function. As this turned out to be a lot simpler that I though, I’m spicing this up by adding not only one way ...