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.
During my professional career, I’ve seen many technical solutions. They fall into few categories: 1. "Stone bricks" - they do what they have to in a crude and the simplest possible way, they are not re-usable in any case and no-one bothers a lot about their maintainability....
Today I’m going to share a bunch of links related to some stuff I’ve been digging into recently. In my quest to broaden the knowledge about modern NoSQL/ Big Data solutions, I’ve encountered Apache Cassandra that led me straight to HBase and this was already an edge...
Do you make any? Probably you do and so do I. There’s a lot of stuff on my list and I won’t be surprised if many of them won’t happen within next year (on 1st of Jan everyone is very optimistic and I fit in with that...
I was planning to write something about differences between agile approach to software development and more classical one (waterfall-alike) style, but I didn’t really want to repeat the obvious banalities you can easily find on Google. That’s why I decided to present it more like “top-down” versus “bottom-up”...
This text may seem to re-invent the wheel. It was first published within company’s intranet to evangelize and tutor junior programists. That’s why :) Testing is hard. Making it in an efficient way is even harder. Legions of experienced functional and technical people spent man-years on finding out the...
I think everyone knows this feeling - you have a program installed, you even use it sometimes, but no-one told you that there’s something very powerful under the hood, something that can save you hours (or even days) of painful work. Sometimes you don’t even know that you...