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Creative Development

I was working with a customer recently that has a development process that both made me cringe and struck me as very creative. In this case, the customer has software they have written when spawning a few databases for each … Continue reading

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A Paste Policy

Most of the code I’ve written for various employers was something that lived inside the organization. This was for internal use and no one outside of the organization ever used it. It was almost always code I’d written, so I … Continue reading

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Database APIs

Creating an API and using an API server of some sort has become a very common way of working with modern software, especially distributed systems. Whether developers move to microservices or something else, they often make more use of APIs … Continue reading

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Technical Debt

We all experience technical debt when building software, especially software that has been around for years. Most of us have likely encountered code that we are loathe to touch and modify. At least, we don’t touch it twice. We might … Continue reading

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