Tech Debt Perils
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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software development
Everything is Code
The executives at CrowdStrike testify before the US Congress, noting their software development process needs work.
2024-10-11
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Keep. It. Simple.
How simple should software development be? Steve notes it can be simple, but not too simple.
2024-10-09
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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
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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
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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
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The Cost of Rework
Steve notes that we're always better doing things better the first time. That takes some effort.
2024-07-01
156 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
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