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.
The struggle against coupling doesn't just seem eternal. It IS eternal. Multi-dimensionality (compile-time, deploy-time, run-time, ...) of the problem, easiness of breaking the state that was achieved with the great effort, complexity of validation / monitoring (try to quantify coupling in a way that makes sense ;>) - all of...
As I treat my crusade to remaining 'polyglot' very serious, I'm putting significant focus on The BEAM (Erlang [http://www.erlang.org/] VM) as a platform & Elixir [http://elixir-lang.org/] in particular. Why Elixir over Erlang? It's quite a long story that deserves...
I seriously DO think that PowerPoint is an abomination, one of the worst Microsoft products ever & extensive using PowerPoint is a straightforward method of crippling you brain. Permanently ;P And as I keep repeating these statements whenever I have an occasion (someone mentions PowerPoint), there's always someone...
Budapest is absolutely stunning in April. Beautiful. Charming. Adorable. Marvelous. Its magnificence is so overwhelming that I had difficulties with fully focusing on Craft Conf 2015 [http://craft-conf.com/2015] - very interesting conference that took place few days ago in Budapest exactly. Interesting enough to write a blog post...
Have you heard about Lambda Architecture (LA)? It's an interesting concept introduced by Nathan Marz ("the father" of Apache Storm [https://storm.apache.org/]) and it's basically about processing massive quantitive of data using two parallel streams: * batch stream - this one is able...
I'm recently a bit fixated on the idea of high performance workplaces. What makes a bunch of people (with all the surroundings) performing like a Swiss watch, or at least better than another gang (with similar abilities, working on congenial products)? Obviously the answer ain't trivial...
