Software Development
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Notes: Microservices by Martin Fowler
I just watched Martin Fowler’s talk about Microservices at XConf. Here are some of my notes and related thoughts. The…
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Continuous Integration Is a Hack!
“Continuous Integration is a hack!” said my friend Ben Rady years ago during a discussion on CI hosted by Stelligent.…
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Significant Software Development Developments of 2014
One of my favorite posts to write each year is the year-ending summary of some of the developments in the…
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Top Three Challenges in Enterprise Mobile App Development in 2015
Enterprises are adopting mobile technologies at an unprecedented rate. As Business News Daily recently reported, 1.3 billion workers will go…
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Signing Digital Certificates with OpenSSL Library
While working on the pgopenssltypes extension I realized that I haven’t discussed how to sign digital certificates using the OpenSSL…
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The Awesome PostgreSQL 9.4 / SQL:2003 FILTER Clause for Aggregate Functions
Sometimes when aggregating data with SQL, we’d love to add some additional filters. For instance, consider the following world bank…
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Adding OpenSSL User-Defined Types to PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL supports user-defined types (UDT). These types can be used to provide type-safety on user-defined functions when we would otherwise…
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R: Featuring engineering for a linear model
I previously wrote about a linear model I created to predict how many people would RSVP ‘yes’ to a meetup…
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R: Vectorising all the things
After my last post about finding the distance a date/time is from the weekend Hadley Wickham suggested I could improve…
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