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Finding my inner trekkie
Last weekend wasn’t the typical weekend at home: kids sports, work, etc.. Instead, I went to the San Francisco Star Trek convention to get in touch with my inner trekkie. This was my first time and I had a blast. The … Continue reading
Sell t-shirts and launch your own satellite – #Oredev 2012
Last week I attended the excellent Oredev conference. This was my first time at Oredev, which covers a wide range of software development topics and takes place in Malmo, Sweden. I gave a talk titled Polyglot application development on Cloud Foundry. Here are the … Continue reading
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Shakespeare on software: Love is blind
Here is something to consider when thinking about and discussing software: But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a … Continue reading
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Java University, JavaOne and Silicon Valley Code Camp
Except for PhillyETE, and GlueCon, most of the conferences I’ve been to this year have been overseas, e.g. JavaZone, JFokus, QCon London, and Egyptian Java developers conference and the Cloud Foundry open tour in Ukraine, Russia, England, and India etc.. Consequently, it … Continue reading
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Developers are like cars
Recently @vambenepe tweeted An excellent developer who doesn’t think like a PM is like a tennis player with awesome shots but who doesn’t aim. This tweet reminded me of another excellent analogy that I’d heard many years ago: Developers are like cars. They … Continue reading
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Awesome JavaZone 2012 – Oslo, Norway
I recently attended the JavaZone 2012 conference in Oslo, Norway. This was my third time at the conference and just like previous years it was awesome. At JavaZone, I gave the latest version of my Decomposing applications for scalability and … Continue reading
Decomposing applications for deployability and scalability – part 1
In April 2012, I started giving a talk called “Decomposing applications for deployability and scalability” . It discusses the benefits and drawbacks of decomposing a monolithic application into a collection of independently deployable and scalable services. Below is the version … Continue reading
Polyglot persistence for Java developers – presented at @oakjug
Last wednesday, I gave a presentation on NoSQL databases at the East Bay Java User Group (@oakjug), which meets monthly in downtown Oakland, CA. The talk gives an overview of NoSQL and compares and contrasts Redis, Cassandra and MongoDB using … Continue reading
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