What is software?

What actually is software? It’s obviously not a physical thing you can point at. If I imagine a specific piece of…

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ActiveMQ Performance Testing

We use ActiveMQ as our messaging layer – sending large volumes of messages with a need for low-latency. Generally it…

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Async await in Java

Writing asynchronous code is hard. Trying to understand what asynchronous code is supposed to be doing is even harder. Promises…

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What craftsmanship means to me

Over a decade ago now I got my first team lead role. It was a reasonably unexpected promotion when the…

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Friction in Software

Friction can be a very powerful force when building software. The things that are made easier or harder can dramatically…

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Copy & paste driven development

Software development is rife with copy & paste: all of us resort to copy and paste coding sometimes. We know…

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Never trust a passing test

One of the lessons when practising TDD is to never trust a passing test. If you haven’t seen the test…

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Project vs product teams

One of the hardest things for companies trying to be agile is how to structure teams. Back in the bad-old…

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Cross-functional teams

Cross-functional teams aren’t a new idea. And yet, somehow, we still don’t seem to have got the memo. I was…

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