Navigating The Internet of Things

Having worked a number of years with connected devices, I thought I’d like to briefly share some observations and pitfalls…

Read More »

The (slightly tongue in cheek) role of the database administrator

As a former DBA, I find a disturbing trend toward a value proposition that is almost nonexistent among a recent…

Read More »

It’s not NoSQL versus RDBMS, it’s ACID + foreign keys versus eventual consistency

The Background Coming from a diverse background and having dealt with a number of distributed systems, I routinely find myself…

Read More »

Testing Love and Polyamorous TDD

The rigor and quality of testing in the current software development world leaves a lot to be desired. Additionally, it…

Read More »

Through The Looking Glass Architecture Antipattern

An anti-pattern is a commonly recurring software design pattern that is ineffective or counterproductive. One architectural anti-pattern I’ve seen a…

Read More »