Microservices architecture is not a bad thing, microservices offer inherent horizontal scalability, decomposition into small parts, etc., but microservices architectures are also the fastest way to lose your shirt if you don’t think fully through what you’re attempting to accomplish. Put it this way: what are the major differences between…

The question is, what’s the difference? That assumes though that there is a fundamental difference, and with that assumption I beg to disagree. …

A few years ago I posted concerning the identity of the “Last God” in Heidegger’s later works, identifying the last god as Janus, the two faced god of currency, and therefore as the origin of the global financial system. Janus was substituted with Caesar, of course, then with Christ and…

Microservices architecture is not a bad thing. Microservices offer inherent horizontal scalability, decomposition into small parts, etc. But microservices architectures are also the fastest way to lose your shirt if you don’t think fully through what you’re attempting to accomplish. Put it this way: what are the major differences between…

A couple of years ago I had an odd thing happen. Back in 2015, after spending 9 years in Austin (mainly for family reasons — my wife is American) my wife and I moved back to Toronto permanently. Two years later I got a call from a consulting/recruiting firm in…

Someone I don’t know personally, but whose open source work I take advantage of quite a bit, is an evangelist for what he calls “software ecology”. Tudor Girba’s basic premise in the use of the term is that software developers barely think far enough forward to consider program maintenance, much…

Java has always been something of a half ‘n half: an object language written in a procedural language with very similar syntax to said procedural language. As a result, there’s a temptation to transfer structures used in procedural programming to Java without accounting for the object nature of (most) of…

Java has problems at present, as I think most people working in the Java ecosystem would admit, and I think that they can be summed up in one word: Oracle. After releasing Java EE to IBM (well, to the Eclipse consortium officially, but you know …) Oracle has reworked the…

It’s annoying to be told to “be careful — it’s dangerous” when you in some way make a reference to the fact that you ride a bike, both due to the frequency and the way it’s done. While some of you may have mothers that warn you about the dangers…