Abstract Heresies

All the cool kids are doing micro-services these days. They are either writing their new apps as a micro-service architecture, or are in th...

Now if 6 turned out to be 9 I don't mind, I don't mind Alright, if all the hippies cut off all their hair I don't care, I don...

The moment you connect two computers together with a wire, you introduce a number of failure modes that are very hard to deal with: undeliv...

Way back in the 70's, when solid-state computing involved chisels and rock walls, the concept of the abstract data type (ADT) was devel...

Here is a typical url: http://www.host.com:8080/path/to/something?arg1=val1&arg2=val2 It has a lot of structure to it. There is the ...

I'm doing some consulting for a company that has a policy of 100% branch coverage on all their tests. I have mixed feelings about this....

I recently had the pleasure of working with some auto-generated Java code.  All the accessors and mutators were auto-generated, so was the p...