Comparing function definition and function call in different programming languages. — Here we go with the first round of our Language Wars series! This time we’ll be comparing the basic syntax of a function definition and a function call in many different programming languages. By “functions” I mean functions, methods, procedures, subroutines or maybe even objects or classes, or whatever else…

A journey in search of the best programming language — Spending all days surrounded by experts in Java, Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, Groovy, Swift, Kotlin, JavaScript and few other languages, I finally decided to find out which language is the best. This series is an attempt to ultimately settle the argument — once and for all. Experts in…

Part 6 — First Problems and Hope — In this series of articles we explore not what we can do with serverless application platforms, but what we no longer have to do. Previous parts: Part 1 — The Fundamentals Part 2 — The Programming Language Part 3 — The Database and the Rest Part 4 — Provisioning Part…

Part 5 — A Simple Matter of Programming — In this series of articles we explore not what we can do with serverless application platforms, but what we no longer have to do. Previous parts: Part 1 — The Fundamentals Part 2 — The Programming Language Part 3 — The Database and the Rest Part 4 — Provisioning In…

Part 4 — Provisioning — In this series of articles we explore not what we can do with serverless application platforms, but what we no longer have to do. Previous parts: Part 1 — The Fundamentals Part 2 — The Programming Language Part 3 — The Database and the Rest In parts 1, 2 and…

Part 3 — The Database and the Rest — In this series of articles we explore not what we can do with serverless application platforms, but what we no longer have to do. In Part 1 we chose a platform and operating system, and in Part 2 we chose the programming language and runtime environment for our backend. This…

Part 2 — The Programming Language — In Part 1, we talked about the hardware platform and the operating system of our backend. This time, we will choose a programming language and the runtime environment. We were thinking about Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, C#, PHP, Node, Go, Lua and Clojure, and we finally chose Node.js. This decision…

Part 1 — The Fundamentals — In this series of articles we will explore not what we can do with serverless application platforms, but what we no longer have to do. Some Background Thanks to services like Syncano, we no longer have to worry about certain tasks that once used to be the main area of concern of…

The real driving force of open-source software quality. — This is a typical thought process: I have the best idea ever. I need to write some code. It works. I am so amazing. Oh, wait. I forgot about an obvious problem. Now I see that this code is useless. I am so stupid. Screw it. And then you forget…