Monthly Archives: December 2024

Distributed Monoliths

Posted on December 6, 2024 by way0utwest

I was watching a video called Microservices are Technical Debt. In it, the person being interviewed said that a lot of people really have a distributed monolith. That caught my eye since I’ve worked with a number of customers who … Continue reading →

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A New Word: Fardle-dun

Posted on December 6, 2024 by way0utwest

fardle-din – n. a long-overdue argument that shakes up a relationship, burning wildly through your issues like a forest fire, which clears out your dry and hollow grievances and reminds you that your roots run deeper than you think. I … Continue reading →

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FIRST_VALUE vs. Min: #SQLNewBlogger

Posted on December 4, 2024 by way0utwest

I had mentioned some new T-SQL functions for SQL Server 2022 and a commenter asked about the difference between Min() and First_value. This post looks at a few cases. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as … Continue reading →

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Reducing the Cycle Time

Posted on December 4, 2024 by way0utwest

There are lots of software development methodologies. This page lists a few, among them waterfall, agile, iterative, rapid, and more. What’s been interesting to me is that the process of deciding what to code and then whether it works doesn’t … Continue reading →

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