Everything is Code
The executives at CrowdStrike testify before the US Congress, noting their software development process needs work.
2024-10-11
95 reads
software development
Keep. It. Simple.
How simple should software development be? Steve notes it can be simple, but not too simple.
2024-10-09
117 reads
Storing and Retrieving the Initialization and Configuration Data for Applications
All developers hit the problem of how and where to store and set their configuration, profile, or initial data. A long time ago, it was generally decided that simple text files containing key/values were best, stored with the application. After all, you are relying on being able to entice busy people to get the permanent settings right for their requirements, folks who are generally not interested in your elegant computer science constructs. Not only that, but the settings must be parsed very quickly and efficiently, otherwise a process that uses the tool will slow to a crawl.
2024-10-04
Bad Stored Procedures
Stored procedures can be poorly written, but Steve prefers them over embedded code.
2024-09-20
242 reads
Event Streams for Persistent and Asynchronous Microservice Communication
This article looks at how you can use event sourcing to maintain persistent and asynchronous communication between microservices.
2024-09-11
A Lack of Architecture and Planning
Today Steve talks about how we end up with software systems that don't appear to be well engineered.
2024-08-19
171 reads
A Programmer's Attitude
The way we approach development can have a big impact on quality, as well as how smoothly our team works together.
2024-07-19
142 reads
The Cost of Rework
Steve notes that we're always better doing things better the first time. That takes some effort.
2024-07-01
113 reads
Common Algorithm Concerns
Steve doesn't have a lot of concerns about AI models writing code and reusing algorithms, but others might not feel the same way.
2024-05-29
157 reads
There's No Free Lunch with Open-source Software
As a member of the PostgreSQL open-source community, I have been following the recent license change by Redis Labes on March 20, 2024. Redis introduced a dual license model, specifically adding the Redis Source Available License (RSAL), which prevents other vendors from providing Redis as a service without a paid subscription from Redis Labs. The […]
2024-04-13
143 reads
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Question of the Day
STRING_AGG's behavior
Executing the following script (Sql Server 2022), you get the table t0 with 10 rows:
CREATE TABLE t0
( id INT PRIMARY KEY
, field1 VARCHAR(1000)
, field2 VARCHAR(MAX));
INSERT INTO t0
SELECT
gs.value
, REPLICATE ('X', 1000)
, REPLICATE ('Y', 1000)
FROM generate_series(1, 10, 1) gs;
GOWhat happens if you execute the following statements?
select STRING_AGG(field1, ';') within group (order by id) from t0;
select STRING_AGG(field2, ';') within group (order by id) from t0;