Software engineering is often about selecting the right trade offs. While deferring feature development is often somewhat straight-forward, based upon a speculation about the return on investment...
https://lostechies.com/derekgreer/2022/05/31/pragmatic-deferral/
In a segment of an interview with host Byron Sommardahl on The Driven Developer Podcast, recorded in the summer of 2021, Byron and I discussed a bit about a pattern I introduced to our project wh...
The use of User Stories has become fairly commonplace in the software industry. First introduced as an agile requirements-gathering process by Extreme Programming, User Stories arguably owe their...
A few years ago, I wrote an article entitled Separation of Concerns: Application Builds & Continuous Integration wherein I discussed the benefits of separating project builds from CI/CD concerns ...
https://lostechies.com/derekgreer/2020/12/10/dotnet-project-builds-with-npm/
I’ve really enjoyed working with the Microsoft Configuration libraries introduced with .Net Core approximately 5 years ago. The older XML-based API was quite a pain to work with, so the Configu...
https://lostechies.com/derekgreer/2020/11/20/conventional-options/
We had a “home grown” framework for a new application we’re working on and the first thing I did was try and rip that out (new project so didn’t have URL and parameter sanitization anyway...
https://lostechies.com/ryansvihla/2020/05/27/picking-a-microframework/
Cassandra data modeling isn’t really something you can do “in the brief” and is itself a subject that can take years to fully grasp, but this should be a good starting point.
https://lostechies.com/ryansvihla/2020/02/05/getting-started-cassandra-part-3/
An opinionated guide on the “correct” way to load test Cassandra. I’m aiming to keep this short so I’m going to leave out a lot of the nuance that one would normally get into when talking...
https://lostechies.com/ryansvihla/2020/02/04/getting-started-cassandra-part-2/
This is a quick and dirty opinionated guide to setting up a Cassandra cluster with multiple data centers.
https://lostechies.com/ryansvihla/2020/02/03/getting-started-cassandra-part-1/
MVPs or Minimum Viable Products are pretty contentious ideas for something seemingly simple. Depending on background and where pepole are coming from experience wise those terms carry radically d...
https://lostechies.com/ryansvihla/2018/12/20/mvp-how-minimal/