Published inITNEXT·Oct 26, 2019The Case for C++Why You Should Start Learning, Now — C++ is a language you should give serious consideration to learning in 2019 (or whenever you happen to come across this article). …Programming8 min readProgramming8 min read
Sep 25, 2019Your Software’s Carbon FootprintIs your tech-stack environmentally responsible? — Climate change has been a part of the scientific communities’ discussions for some time now. More recently we’re starting to hear more from our local and national politicians and governments are taking action and encouraging their citizens to participate in reducing their footprint. …Climate Change4 min readClimate Change4 min read
Jan 4, 2019I’m Bored of Language XI want to go fast — I haven’t been programming for long, but I’ve gotten to the point where I’m a little bored working in Ruby, Python, Scala, PHP, C#, and JavaScript (to name a few). New languages feel like old languages, remixed. The concerns are more or less similar and the challenges feel the same…Programming7 min readProgramming7 min read
Jun 22, 2018Writing Agreeable CodeThe basis for healthy community dynamics — Reflecting back on my career so far, there are some bits of advice I wish I could tell my younger self (like to take a course on compilers 😄). One of them that I’ve been mulling over recently is more about social dynamics of how we write code within a…Software Development5 min readSoftware Development5 min read
Published inITNEXT·Jun 22, 2018Handling Rate-Limits with Scala FuturesSlow down while going fast to go faster. — Rate-limits are an unfortunate part of life when developing/integrating against external APIs. Rate-limits vary in their implementation, but usually boil down to some sort of pre-defined limit on the number (and possibly type) of requests that can be made within a specific time-window. Dealing with this when writing concurrent code…Programming10 min readProgramming10 min read
Jun 12, 2018Systems ProgrammingDemystified with a jargon-free exploration. — Often we hear, learn, and even use terms or phrases that we don’t fully understand. I find this to be quite common within the software development community, whether is be RESTful Web APIs, Agile methodology, Machine Learning, or some other term. …System Programming7 min readSystem Programming7 min read
Feb 12, 2018Occasional Go #1 — Travis CIA recipe for setting up Travis CI on your Go projects. TL;DR — Skip to bottom for full recipe. Whether you’re an expert or beginner, building a toy program or production app, alone or with a team; Travis CI is an invaluable resource in your development toolkit. …Continuous Integration8 min readContinuous Integration8 min read
Jan 19, 2018Your CLI Tool Should be a Server (Maybe)If you have written a CLI, maybe it should have also been a server. As authors of CLIs and tooling, I’m sure the idea of integration has crossed your mind before. …Cli7 min readCli7 min read
Jan 16, 2018Exponential Back-Off With Scala FuturesA common sight in Scala code is to see Future[T] used as the result of network-based operations (such as a web-request). However, when dealing with a network, failures can be common. It’s likely you’ll want to retry this operation, but should only be done so if coupled with exponential back-offs…Scala4 min readScala4 min read
Published inXandr-Tech·Jun 22, 2017The Futures AbstractionConcurrency has many different abstractions: The classic processes and threads, the older but newly-new actor-based concurrency, CSP style concurrency (looking at you Go), and the quite popular future/promise. There are more, but one thing they all have in common is the goal to create a better way to achieve concurrent…Backend12 min readBackend12 min read
