AWS EBS in 4 Steps

When you fire up an AWS AMI, you are given a small partition of disk space that survives reboots. For…

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All Other Metrics Are Useless

When it comes to queues, whether they’re implemented as JMS, database tables (i.e. what Ruby’s Delayed::Job uses for a queue),…

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The Significance of HTML5

HTML5 is important for three reasons. And its importance starts with the end of browser plugins. That’s right. With HTML5,…

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Ahoy There Callbacks!

Because it’s my bag, I like JavaScript. In fact, I’ve grown to love JavaScritp’s asynchronous callback oriented style of programming.…

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Understanding ElasticSearch Analyzers

Sadly, lots of early Internet beer recipes aren’t necessarily in an easily digestible format; that is, these recipes are unstructured…

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Imbibing the Fluency of Mockito

I recently found myself writing some code to integrate two disparate platforms. One of these systems is Java based and…

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Sometimes TDD Requires a Hammer

While there are myriad mocking libraries available for the Java platform, only a select few of these nifty frameworks is…

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Introducing Android Migrations

Have you ever worked with Rails’ migrations? They make database changes a breeze, don’t they? While every software release doesn’t…

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MongoDB Pro Tip: Field Projections

Did you ever learn that select * from table in RDBMS-land is bad? Of course, you did! If you’re only…

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