Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
A while back an xkcd comic on Voting Software attracted a lot of attention on Twitter for it’s alarmist comparison of the attitudes of the software development industry to other engineering disciplines and in particular, this statement: “our entire field is bad at what we do, and if you rely on us, everyone will die” …
I’m building a simple project that needs to receive requests from a simple webpage and process them over time sequentially (more on this later!). Using an AWS SQS queue seems like a good fit for what I’m looking for. Without creating something heavyweight like exposing a REST endpoint running in an EC2 instance, this also …
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Unfortunately I wasn’t lucky enough to attend JavaOne 2017 this year, so I’m catching up this evening and watching the recording of the Day 1 Keynote here. A few notes, key quotes and thoughts (screenshots taken from the video): Mark Cavage, Vice President of software development, Oracle: The next decade: Java first, open, evolving, nimble, …
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