Software Development
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What is wrong with troubleshooting tools?
“Troubleshooting is a form of problem solving applied to repair failed software. It is a logical, systematic search for the…
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Dogma Driven Development
We really are an arrogant, opinionated bunch, aren’t we? We work in an industry where there aren’t any right answers.…
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AWS Lambda: An Introduction
Many parts of a modern infrastructure are inherently event-driven or can be represented with an event-driven model. For example, we…
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The Cost of Code Reuse Abuse
Oddly enough, while I’m sleeping or in some zombie state while attempting to sleep, I often feel like the ideas…
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Why Non-Blocking?
I’ve been writing non-blocking, asynchronous code for the past year. Learning how it works and how to write it is…
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Law of Demeter and How to Work With It
The Law of Demeter is an interesting programming principle. It’s the only one I know of that has a near-mathematical…
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How to use SQL PIVOT to Compare Two Tables in Your Database
This can happen ever so easily. You adapt a table by adding a new column: …
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Code For the User, Not for Yourself
First, no matter what the methodology is, we all write software for our users (a.k.a. customers, project sponsors, end users,…
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Interpret Page Fault Metrics
A page fault occurs when a program requests an address on a page that is not in the current set…
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