Tweet Joy of Coding has totally exceeded my expectations and proved to be one of the best conferences I have attended this year (and there has been a few already ).  Rotterdam is also a city I’d like to visit again — it’s quiet, clean, packed full of beautiful architectures and the people are so friendly and helpful! “happy speakers, happy attendees”

Tweet One of my key takeaways from Tammer Saleh’s microservices anti-patterns talk at CraftConf is that we need to record correlation IDs to help us debug microservices.   Why do we need Correlation IDs? Suppose a user request comes in and after various aspects of the request has been handled by several services something goes

Tweet In enterprises we tend to sell architectural projects by showing you the current messy state and pitch you an idealized end state. But the problem is that, the ideal end state we’re pitching exists only as an idea, without having gone through all the compromises and organic growth that made the current state messy. Once

One thing I have noticed about myself over the years; I’m not as good as I would care to be at focusing on details. In fact, sometimes I’m awful at paying attention to the details. As a software developer, of course, details are extremely important. I’ve come up with (and read about) a few tricks/heuristics to […]

Tweet Having been primarily involved with .Net languages in my career so far, homoiconicity was a new idea to me when I first encountered it in Clojure (and also later in Elixir). If you look it up on wikipedia, you’ll find the usual wordy definition that vaguely makes sense. “…homoiconicity is a property of some