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Software Development
Unintentionally Obfuscated: Dealing with Challenging Legacy Code
I recently had to deal with some legacy code with significant performance issues. It was more challenging than I thought…
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Software Development
Apache Drill SQL Queries on Parquet Data
In this week’s Whiteboard Walkthrough Parth Chandra, Chair of PMC for Apache Drill project and member of MapR engineering team,…
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Software Development
MVC is dead – what comes next?
React.js, Elm, Cycle.js, and other UIĀ frameworks introduced a new way of building user interfaces. By applying principles from functional reactive…
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Agile
Coaches, Managers, Collaboration and Agile, Part 1
There was a fascinating Twitter conversation last week when I was busy writing other things. (I also find Twitter to…
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Enterprise Java
Event-Sourcing and CQRS in Practise
Anyone that has tried to implement a fully ACID compliant system knows that there are a lot of considerations you…
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Core Java
Conference Season Mic Drop: 13 Java Talks That You Shouldnāt Miss
Your boss didnāt send you to a real conference? Weāve got the best talks for you The month of September…
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Core Java
Small scale stream processing kata. Part 1: thread pools
Once again I prepared a programming contest on GeeCON 2016 for my company. This time the assignment required designing and…
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Enterprise Java
Getting started with Apache Flink and Kafka
Introduction Apache Flink is an open source platform for distributed stream and batch data processing. Flink is a streaming data…
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Software Development
The Broken Scientific Publishing Model and My Attempt to Improve It
Iāll begin this post with a rant about the state of scientific publishing, then review the technology ādisruptionā landscape and…
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