Not all KPIs are created equal
Sometimes it’s worth challenging the hypothesis behind a target…
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Off-the-shelf is not always cheaper
… don’t give away the Crown Jewels of your business to a vendor who can’t do it as well…
You don’t need Artificial Intelligence, you need Active Information
… the missing technology that’s preventing you from getting value from your data is data engineering and not AI.
Living in a material world… part 1
How the ‘materials’ of development affect software
How to scale your technology… pick your constraints
Like plants, technology growth needs support and constraints
Clojure Adoption - The Usual Suspects
I think that you have to have suffered a number of failures and frustrations with other programming languages to recognise that the benefits far out weigh th...
Clojure the Devil…Revisited
This all comes down to developer discipline.
Levers of change
Evolutionary architecture is the art of self organisation of both the human subsystems that produce software and the automated systems that form the environm...
Prerequisites for evolutionary architectures
Designing software that is flexible and changeable is arguably the most important architectural property.
Package a Clojure web application using Docker Permalink
In this post, we will be focusing on how to add a production database (PostgreSQL, in this instance) to an application, how to package the application as ...
Deploy a Clojure web application to AWS using Terraform Permalink
In this post, we will be focusing on how to use HashiCorp Terraform to stand up a fairly complex infrastructure to host our web application Docker contain...
Build a Clojure Web App using Duct Permalink
In this blog post, we are going to build a server-side web application using Clojure and a framework called Duct.
Clojure the Devil…is in the detail [Or ‘Why I’m too dumb for Clojure’]
This all comes down to developer discipline.
Message in a Bottle - Software by Design in a Functional Programming World (part 3)
Good systems are like sauces, it’s all in the folding and reduction
The Early Abstraction turns into a Worm - Software by Design in a Functional Programming World (part 2)
Abstractions are the way we manage to deliver complex software systems and therefore are a tool we need to apply judiciously.
Software by Design in a Functional Programming World
Behaviour first- Data first class
To Do Damage (TDD)
TDD is one tool… Like all good tools, it has sharp edges and if you misuse it, it can cut you that’s not a reason to leave it in the toolbox.
TDD - That’s Design Done
… a fine grained tool, and as such should be used where appropriate but it’s not a religion.
Everything looks like a nail
Everything looks like a nail
‘Prop’ up your tests with test.check
Property based testing (PBT) is a powerful technique that discovers edge cases more thoroughly than traditional ‘example’ based testing
The Physics of Software or Why I am not a ‘Software Engineer’
‘you don’t put science in your name if you’re a real science!’, and I don’t put ‘Engineer’ in my job title as I’m not a real ‘Engineer’.
‘Lazy Developers are good Developers’ OR Lean Software Support
without ‘lazy’ software developers you would have nothing to support.