Geek, agilista, blogger, codefella, serial reader. In the daylight - I navigate & lead software engineering. #lean #design #aws #elixir #analytics. I speak here for myself only.
Nooo, it’s not about natural interfaces :) Our client quite recently encountered a very interesting stage of its IT landscape maturity life-cycle. Landscape has got unmanageable… Sounds terrifying? Yes, it may look harsh, but fortunately in this particular case it’s still quite easy to fix. Let’s start...
Someone really smart has once said “a picture is worth a thousand words”. Isn’t it why we use flipcharts and whiteboards all the time? It’s so easy to make your point and focus your group’s attention if you have a graphic representation of what you’re speaking...
Somehow, people use to consider just three ways of inter-process communication: * web services (that come in many styles and flavors) * file transfer * database sharing (yuck!) Undoubtedly you can cover pretty much every business scenario using those approaches only, but: 1. Connecting applications with web services (peer-to-peer paradigm)...
Microsoft is certainly aiming to fill their more-than-obvious gap in NOSQL / Big Data offering and they are going to do it in style. It has been confirmed, that Microsoft is working on their own implementation of Hadoop, which currently is in first CTP (Customer Technology Preview) stage. The...
I’ve seen an interesting (and very annoying) trend recently - people who don’t know how to lead a well structured project and / or people who lead the under-estimated projects tend to “go agile”. Unfortunately, this “agile” doesn’t have much in common with true agile approach to software...
Tonight I’m going to write a bit more personal stuff - don’t say you haven’t been warned :) I’m quite impatient usually and it gets me really anxious when I see someone making an obvious (at least to me) mistake without realizing that. In some cases I realize...