Give Me Back My Monolith by Craig Kerstiens is something I have been ranting about for quite some time. It is thus good to see other people standing on the same side of the bridge:As we ventured into micro-services onboarding time skyrocketed. Yes, we have docker and orchestration such…
Docker containers have proven themselves extremely useful in allowing developers to sandbox environments and ease the deployment of services. Have a complicated service setup? No worries. Simply, describe the steps in a Dockerfile and you should be able to replicate the process on every host OS that has Docker support.…
Last week, I made my first tentative foray into Go programming. My company uses Go in a couple of projects, but although I have heard many positive things about the language, so far I have tried to stay away from it. The mere thought that Go is a 21st Century…
My response to Talk, then code by Dave Cheney:I cannot emphasize how important communication is in today's IT industry. In fact, if they paid me a penny for every time I have hurt someone's ego over code, I would be a millionaire. It is not pleasant. I know, I…
A few days ago, I was invited to give a talk at the Munich Kotlin Users Group meetup (check out my slides here) For quite some time, I have had an idea to promote Kotlin as the missing link between software engineering and Data Science. During KotlinConf 2018, I had…
Hard-coding configuration is bad. This is one of the things that newbie programmers learn quickly after they realize that have committed sensitive information to a public GitHub repository. And it happens so easily. Often, you are in the spur of the moment, wanting to test something locally, when you figure…
Often, the seemingly simple things can make you spend hours chasing around your tail. Like trying to connect to a MongoDB instance using KMongo.Basically, if you have checked out the KMongo quick start, setting up a client and fetching some data should be extremely easy:val client = KMongo.createClient(…
Is Kotlin chasing the footsteps of Scala? Does being Kotlin-first mean abandoning the foundations laid out by Java, and how much "idiomatic Kotlin" is too much? You decide.…
In this post, I will lay out my arguments why you might want to think about dependency injection for your next Python project. I am not trying to preach a certain style of "best-practice" programming, but simply, to share my perspective from the eyes of a seasoned Java developer.…
List and switch back and forth between multiple git branches with ease.…