Transcending REST and RPC

It seems that a new paradigm is coming. Facebook and Netflix have come up with different implementations for that idea.…

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Code review: Why are we doing it?

Developers across many organisations adopted code reviews as one of their core practices. Although that sounds like a very reasonable…

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Clojure (Prismatic) Schemas are Swagger

 Recently, I decided to include Swagger documentation to our time sheet application. Although Swagger provides tools to help clients integrate…

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Increasing complexity one entity at a time

While working on one of our internal tools, I decided to make a small comprise and not follow my own…

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CQRS and Event Sourcing for dummies

CQRS (Command and Query Responsibility Segregation) and Event Sourcing are concepts that are not new at all. Alongside NoSql, Functional…

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Cloud Application Design Considerations

When designing applications for the cloud, irrespective of the chosen platform, I have often found it useful to consider four…

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The inevitable imbalance in pair programming

At some point throughout a developers career, no matter their experience, they will most likely find themselves in a situation…

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Big Data Skills Spectrum

Big Data has been a hype for many years. I’ve seen a few “Big Data” projects start in the past…

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Does TDD really lead to good design?

Recently I tweeted that TDD can’t lead to a good design if we don’t know what good design looks like.…

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