Where Is This Coming From?

In enterprise software the top one question you have to answer as a developer almost every day is “Where is…

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One-Time Passwords Do Not Provide Non-Repudiation

The title is obvious and it could’ve been a tweet rather than a blogpost. But let me expand. OTP, or…

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Solving Problems Properly Is Often Not Viable

How many times you, as a software expert, saw some software or process and thought “damn, this can be done…

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Near Real-Time Indexing With ElasticSearch

Choosing your indexing strategy is hard. The Elasticsearch documentation does have some general recommendations, and there are some tips from…

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A Disk-Backed arraylist

It sometimes happens that your list can become too big to fit in memory and you have to do something…

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Restoring Cassandra Priam Backup With sstableloader

I’ve previously written about setting up Cassandra and Priam for backup and cluster management. The example that I gave for…

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Cybersecurity Is Very Important

A few months ago an essay titled “Cybersecurity is not very important” appeared. The essay is well written and interesting…

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Let’s Annotate Our Methods With The Features They Implement

Writing software consists of very little actual “writing”, and much more thinking, designing, reading, “digging”, analyzing, debugging, refactoring, aligning and…

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Idea: A Generic P2P Network Client

Every now and then one has a half-baked idea about some project that they aren’t likely to be able to…

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