Blog Posts
Standardising Microservices at Scale
Enforcing standards in a distributed system might impose the risk of constraining innovation but it can help preserving everyone’s sanity.
Read MoreHow Code Becomes Legacy
Your current software running in production might be considered legacy today, but it has managed to achieve something remarkable: it solved the problems it was created for.
Read MoreGitHub as a Fast Track to Interviews
Your GitHub profile can increase the chances of landing your next programming job, but it can also act as a double-edged sword.
Read MoreCan you make it as a Software Developer?
Are you considering a career in software development? Or are you currently struggling to keep up? Achieving your goals is both easier and harder than you think.
Read MoreCode Care Act
Individual code ownership or collective code ownership? Your choice won’t really matter if you are missing one critical ingredient: the developers need to care.
Read MoreJust Enough Functional Programming
I absolutely love functional programming. It does help in a lot of ways, but you should keep in mind that you can still end up with a written program that is completely, utterly, broken.
Read MoreThe impact of growing a Tech Team
Why do businesses grow technology teams to the extreme? The Mythical Man Month taught us that throwing people at a problem won’t help to deliver software products faster. But in some cases, it still feels necessary.
Read MoreArchitects VS Chaos
This is going to be a tough topic. It’s a very powerful dilemma in modern software engineering. It’s complicated because it also reflects our everyday lives. We all live in a world where there’s no absolute freedom and a government is considered vital by most people. Ok then, how does this apply to a software company?
Read MoreEvolution of a Software Engineer
This is our story. For some of us, those with 10 or more years of experience in software, it might sound familiar. For the others, still in the early stages of their careers, there should be plenty of advice about what’s coming up next in your short-to-medium-term future.
Read MoreMicroservices ARE a Silver Bullet
How often do you hear this sentence? Probably a little too often. As an engineer who has worked on a microservices architecture for the past 4 years, I would like to share with you my most valuable lessons, confident that it will be helpful to anyone trying to put a similar architecture together, and confident that I’m probably still doing most of it wrong.
Read MoreScala Automapper for Scala 2.12
I've just released an improved version of my case class automapper, now compatible with Scala 2.12
Read MoreExar DB: an event store with streaming support built with Rust
I've finally open sourced first semi-serious project built with Rust, it was a lot of fun building it.
Read MoreReleased my first Rust libraries: toml-config and indexed-line-reader
My adventure with Rust begins, I've built a couple of libraries devs might find useful
Read MoreScala hassle-free case class mapping
Who really dislikes manual mappings? If that's you, I've just released a macro-based Scala library to facilitate mapping case classes!
Read MoreRxKafka Release 0.1.0
I've released a Scala library to turn Kafka consumers and producers into RxScala observables and observers
Read MoreScalescrape Release 0.1.0
I've just released a Scala web scraping library built on top of Scalext
Read MoreScalext Release 0.1.0
I've released a library to enable Scala developers to create their own DSL to manipulate immutable contexts
Read MoreAkka Concurrent Board using WebSockets
I've published a sample application built using Scala and Akka actors
Read MoreNode Boilerplate released
I've just released a Node.js boilerplate project on GitHub, it's the core of this website.
Read MoreJoining Ovo Energy
I've received a new exciting offer from an energy company in London to be part of their new development team
Read MoreMoving to London
I've received a great job offer from a webcasting company in London, and I will join them very, very soon.
Read MoreEntity Framework 4 - Model-First and multiple Database provider support
Are you wondering how you can add the support to multiple database providers seamlessly into your .NET project that uses Entity Framework 4? If so, jump in!
Read MoreBF-Player: An HTML5 Audio Player with CSS3 Styling
I gave birth to an HTML5 Audio Player that uses some of the new cool HTML5 & CSS3 features, read more for details on how I did it
Read MoreAn Android Repository with OrmLite (using an existing SQLite database)
An OrmLite Repository implementation for Android, managing an existing database.
Read MoreNative Django on Google App Engine – A JSON RESTful Web Service (Sample Project)
If you are interested in creating a RESTful Web Service API (JSON) with native Django running on Google App Engine. A project sample source is available to download.
Read MoreASP.NET MVC3 Beta + Entity Framework Code First + Razor View Engine (Sample Project)
A Sample Project in ASP.NET MVC3, Code First (Entity Framework), and Razor View Engine.
Read MoreBest & Most Useful Django Apps You Should Know About
If you're searching for the best and most useful django reusable applications to include in one of your projects, come in.
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