This week there was a headline that said "Open Source Software Powers 96% of Modern Applications, New Study Finds" and if you stopped reading there, you might think, hey, it's not in the apps I work on. Or you might think that because you use OSS software, most of the world also does. Microsoft, Oracle, […]
2024-12-07
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What is a distributed monolith vs. a microservice architecture? Steve has a few thoughts today.
2024-12-06
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Building software can be hard and lots of people have tried various methodologies to improve the way their teams work. Steve notes a lot of the process is the same, but he has a preference.
2024-12-04
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Today Steve wonders how many software developers use separate connections for reads and writes in their application.
2024-11-13
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Ignoring technical debt can cause no shortage of problems for companies. Today Steve has a recent example of this.
2024-10-21
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The executives at CrowdStrike testify before the US Congress, noting their software development process needs work.
2024-10-11
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How simple should software development be? Steve notes it can be simple, but not too simple.
2024-10-09
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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
Stored procedures can be poorly written, but Steve prefers them over embedded code.
2024-09-20
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This article looks at how you can use event sourcing to maintain persistent and asynchronous communication between microservices.
2024-09-11
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