Software Development
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We Analyzed 30,000 GitHub Projects – Here Are The Top 100 Libraries in Java, JS and Ruby
One of the biggest dilemmas developers face every day is which software libraries to use. Go with the hot new…
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Why I stopped using Spring
My post on DZone about Humble Architects sparked somewhat of a controversy, especially around my disparaing comments regarding Spring and…
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Service Composition: Modularity for SOA and Event-Driven Applications, Part I
Modularity is a cornerstone of good application design. As systems become more distributed, we’re faced with unique challenges to achieving…
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Drones and Big Data
Two weeks ago, I had a conversation with some colleagues where I was postulating a future bull market for drones,…
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What the Heck are Non-Functional Requirements?
Simply put, if functional requirements create code that will address the needs of the end-users (customers), then non-functional requirements…
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When Source Code Comments Indicate Trouble
Developers have their own, cynical kind of humour. Consider, for instance, Geek and Poke’s view on how to insult a…
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Insidi-DoS: Internally negotiated, self-image-damaging DoS
What’s more damning and ego-bruising than an external DoS (denial of service) attack? Why, an internally inspired one of course.…
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Technology Decisions Are About Trade Offs and Solving Problems
At some point in the last decade we hit the inflection point where distributed systems, and all their complexities, became…
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Can we learn to restrict our work to a budget?
I’ve previously talked about the idea of shifting from estimates to budgets. The fundamental point of this article is that…
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