Government Abandonware
Governments order software for their allegedly very specific needs. And the EU government (The European Commission) orders “visionary” software that will supposedly one day be used by many member statesContinue reading
Should We Look For a PRISM Alternative?
I just watched Citizen Four, and that made me think again about mass surveillance. And it’s complicated. I would like to leave aside the US foreign policy (where I agreeContinue reading
KISS With Essential Complexity
Accidental complexity, in a broader sense, is the complexity that developers add to their code and that is not necessary for the code to work. That may include overengineering, overuseContinue reading
A Non-Blocking Benchmark
A couple of weeks ago I asked the question “Why non-blocking?”. And I didn’t reach a definitive answer, although it seemed that writing non-blocking code is not the better optionContinue reading
How to Land a Software Engineering Job?
The other day I read this piece by David Byttow on “How to land an engineering job”. And I don’t fully agree with his assertions. I do agree, of course,Continue reading
Why Non-Blocking?
I’ve been writing non-blocking, asynchronous code for the past year. Learning how it works and how to write it is not hard. Where are the benefits coming from is whatContinue reading
My Development Setup
I think I may have a pretty non-standard development setup (even for a Java-and-Scala developer). I use Windows, which I guess almost no “real” developer does. I’ve tried Linux (Ubuntu)Continue reading
Do It Either Way, We’ll Refactor It Later
It often happens that a new piece of functionality is discussed within a team and different developers have a different preference over how it should be implemented. “But what ifContinue reading
I Am Not Allowed to Post My Content on Reddit
I’ve once been ninja-banned (I can still post and comment, but nobody else sees it) on reddit (/r/programming, more precisely), and recently my submissions (from this blog) that got toContinue reading
The Internet Is Pseudo-Decentralized
We mostly view the internet as something decentralized and resilient. And from practical point of view, it almost is. The Web is decentralized – websites reside on many different serversContinue reading