Review of “Refactoring at scale” by Maude Lemaire
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy main area of expertise in my everyday work is actually cleaning 😉 And no, it’s not Tony Soprano style of cleaning, but working on making the codebase better. I really enjoy refactoring, applying good practices, and seeing Sonar stats going up. Therefore, when I saw the title ‘Refactoring at scale’ I was both interested
Review of “High Performance MySQL”
Reading Time: 3 minutesDB-related knowledge in the current age seems to be polarized. On the one hand, ORMs’ (and other similar solutions) creators are trying to abstract away as much as possible. On the other hand – we have very specific use cases, where in-depth knowledge of DB configuration and performance is crucial. ‘High Performance MySQL’ is a
Valuable links #44 – Say goodbye to microservices, welcome SCS
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Simple HelloWorld with Erlang in IntelliJ
Reading Time: < 1 minuteErlang isn’t the most popular functional language out there, but sometimes there’s a need to touch it. I got one project written in it, and therefore I had to setup my IntelliJ to work properly. Here’s a short story how to setup our favourite IDE to run simple HelloWorld in Erlang. My intent here is to have a simple remind-me post,
Review of Jacquie Read “Communication patterns” book
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt happens from time to time, that I pick up the book to read, and then I get something totally unexpected from it. That was my story with the “Communication patterns” book by Jacquie Read. The book I am reviewing today was not a conscious purchase. I got it in the HumbleBumble special offer, as