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We split our monolith into microservices. We did so to make it easier to reason about but morever we did it so that we can apply different data persistence strategies for each enti…

I'm a tech lead in a large, distributed application. I disagree somewhat, there's a bit of a unicorn reasoning. If teams don't work well, a tech lead's job is to revive culture and…

Akka.net is a C# port from the Java version. Not sure about the rest though. :)

I love how the rethink team keeps improving an otherwise wonderful document database. ReQL is also super nice. :)

Yikes! Maybe it's time I switch to using fresh tomatoes when making red sauce. It's not that hard to skin tomatoes anyways so maybe it makes sense to go in that direction, especial…

Thank goodness that coffee is something I actually like. I stick to no more than 4 cups a day, 5 cups if I'm feeling lucky. And by a cup, I mean an 8 oz cup (a 20oz to me is 2.5 cu…

The author addresses social structures and we seem to live in an age of increasing isolatedness amongst people. I thought it would have been a hard read (I suffer from depression) …

If you're expecting one type and get another, you have to handle it, right? Documentation is important in JavaScript by virtue that code contracts are never enforced due to implici…

JavaScript, IMO, forces the developer to do a lot more defensive coding. All API's have contracts. An add() method that computers two numbers shouldn't expect a JSON object. For th…

That's a straw man. While no one is forcing me to rent it out, it's common courtesy to let your landlord know of any activities you wish to pursue. After all, it's not your propert…

I wouldn't be surprised if they give it away for free. Microsoft has other revenue streams that it can use (VS Pro, MSDN, Office, Mac Builds, Azure).

It's debt for the same reason that when you keep borrowing money, things just pile up and you feel overwhelmed. While no one will repo my car for not following through on an idea, …

My car came pre-loaded with Bose speakers and, quite honestly, they're the best speakers I've heard in any car I've driven. The sound is pretty good considering that my car's stere…

My first prebuilt was a Gateway Intel Pentium II 400Mhz. It had a decent gaming card (AGP) and a Soundblaster sound card. Oh the days when I used to game on that PC. Then I got gut…

This article hurts. I'm currently contracting with a large company and they said they were agile. The only agile thing about them is their cultic insistence on two week sprints and…

I'm excited to work with RethinkDB on my pet projects. Glad to hear you guys beefed up failovers, that's a big deal in a lot of places. ;)

I'm 35 and I'm not at all complaining. Career wise, I've not only learned more technically but it seems like I'm learning better/faster these days than 10+ years ago. On a personal…

I will disregard said posts until Google Fiber announces they're coming to Minnesota. On that note, can Google Fiber come to Minnesota? :(

Not only do we have stuff 1000x faster/cheaper than before, but 3D XPoint is backed by intel and micron, both have colluded for decades on how to develop faster, cheaper, durable s…

What people want are results now. It took me a few tries to cook any fish well. Every once in a while I screw up and I chalk it to lessons learned. The first time I made scallops I…

I'm a software engineer and I took a total of two cooking courses and with lots of practice, I became a better cook. $1500 is essentially a weekend cooking class...twice. Learning …

Plain JS is better suited for developers who are writing large apps. jQuery is a nightmare to maintain in large applications and popular SPA apps have foregone jQuery (except Backb…

Been suffering with depression for most of my life. Exercise does help (for me, it's walking or hiking). I took medication for a year and I hated it. I meditate a lot (I'm a Christ…

Ballmer was good at sales but horrible at running a company. He was perfect before the internet came to be and before the rise of mobile devices. Ballmer, is in fact, what sunk Mic…

Having grown up in a big city like Chicago, yes, ambition gets drilled into you at a young age. My dad was pretty ambitious and many of my extended family are the same way. So I tu…