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.
I bet that nearly everyone in the software-crafting industry has heard about YAGNI [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it] ("You Ain't Gonna Need It") principle. But what about TAGRI? TAGRI (which is nearly as old as YAGNI) stands for "They...
The phone (as a GSM voice communication device) should be already dead by 2021 - don't you think? Its underlying technology is outdated, and you can achieve the same (or better) effects more conveniently, with a better (call) quality, w/o many constraints (an expensive monthly contract, a...
Do you recall that feeling when you've read (in a blog post, tech book, or whitepaper) something you've liked so much (new method, approach, or technique) that you couldn't wait until you try it in action? Maybe you were even surprised: "OMG, it&...
We live in the Information Age [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Age]. The whole world is fueled by information; it's a new global currency. But for how long? The cost of creating information is zero. As a result, the amount of information in the global circulation grows...
Last week I've described [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/dancing-with-flink-data-streams-a-gentle-intro/] what is Kinesis Data Analytics and promised we'll have some fun with processing streams the pro way. It's time to turn these promises into real action! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Before we do anything useful, we need some...
'Big data' is not among the most catchy buzzwords anymore. This is probably good - after the initial hype, there's a proper time to assess the practical applicability and tangible benefits. Big data's epicenter was always the Hadoop [https://hadoop.apache.org/] ecosystem. It...
