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Monolith First (2015)
Going directly to a microservices architecture is risky, so consider building a monolithic system first. Split to microservices when, and if, you need it.
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Git Submodules: Adding, Using, Removing, Updating (2009)
I've spent a little more than a month working with Git now. I can honestly say that while there are many things that I like about Git, there are just as many things that I personally find to be a pain in the butt. Submodules specifically have managed to be a thorn in my side…
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The Database Inside Your Codebase
Navigating codebases of any meaningful size is difficult. Most of a programmer's time is spent jumping through the codebase, reading or skimming to build a ment...
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Functorio
You might have heard people say that functional programming is more academic, and real engineering is done in imperative style. I’m going to show you that real engineering is functional, and …
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Behold z, the unsung jewel that rethinks shell navigation
I spend a fair amount of time wandering around in the terminal. The chances are that you are too since you dared to open this story. My daily activities led me …
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Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time
Near the end of January I was pointed to a twitter thread where a Windows user with a powerful machine was hitting random hangs in explorer. Lots of unscientific theories were being proposed. I don…
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Is This a Branch?
Let’s try a new format – “shorts”; small blog posts where I elaborate on ideas that I’d discuss at my twitter, but they either come back over and over, or the short form doesn’t convey all th…
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Why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance (2020)
Here’s a list of reasons why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance, assuming that your application doesn’t actually need all the columns. When I write production code, I explicitly specify the columns of interest in the select-list (projection), not only for performance reasons, but also for application reliability…
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Distribution of JVM Desktop Applications
This is the 6th post in the The state of JVM desktop frameworks focus series.
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Julia 1.6: what has changed since Julia 1.0?
Julia 1.0 came out well over 2 years ago. Since then a lot has changed and a lot hasn’t. Julia 1.0 was a commitment to no breaking changes, but that is not to say no new features have been added to the language.
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The complexity that lives in the GUI
The user interfaces are a weird thing. There are all sorts of libraries and frameworks that are supposed to help you on your journey of writing a GUI, but despite all the best practices and frameworks forcing you to eat your vegetables, the GUI always ends up being a ridiculous mess. After pondering some more about…
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On navigating a large codebase
A while ago, I’ve been working on a very large codebase that consisted of a few million lines of code. Large systems are usually a big mess and this one was no exception. Since this is a rather common problem in software engineering, I thought the internet would be littered with stories about this topic. There is a…
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Implementing the Elo Rating System (2020)
In this article we’ll look at how to implement the Elo rating system in code.
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Fuzz me wrong – How QuickCheck destroyed my favourite theory
Quite a while back I wrote a larger article on the algebraic foundation of software patterns which also covered the MapReduce algorithm .
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Performance Showdown: Rust vs Javascript (2020)
After spending some weeks playing with Rust, I felt ready to test my skills and try some programming challenges in the [Advent Of Code](https://adventofcode.com/). My approach to tackle some of those challenges was to solve them using Javascript (I use it in my day to day) first and then port the code to Rust. While…
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Idioms for the D Programming Language
Effective D Programming Language.
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From First Principles: Why Scala?
Scala, first appearing in 2004, is neither an old stalwart nor a new player in the programming language market. This post will discuss the unique combination of features that Scala provides and how it compares to other languages on the market, diving beneath the superficial experience to explore the fundamentals of…
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Stack Overflow Users Rejoice as Pattern Matching Is Added to Python
Our on-the-ground reporter gauges developer reactions to the Python Steering Council's latest decision regarding pattern matching.
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Interview Frustrations
Update: Here’s the link to the HN discussion about this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26092964
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Patterns of Distributed Systems (2020)
A catalog of patterns to better understand, communicate, and teach the design of distributed systems
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Timezone Bullshit
People often use short timezone abbreviations like EST and PST to refer to timezones. If you're doing this in a computer program, you are almost certainly making a huge mistake. Let's take take a look, using the disastrously bad unix libc timezone tools , which you're almost certainly using under the hood if you're…
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