I have had a long history of working on data integration, data processing and API projects. Some of my earliest work was building a processing pipeline for credit records, translating and enriching fixed-length field records into a database. After that, I took that…

There are a few principles that I would like the ecosystem of build tool developers to adopt so we can all get on the same page. Here they are in priority order:

As the developer of mustache.java I get a lot of feature requests to break the mustache language and add real logic to the templates. In virtually every case the reason the developer wanted the functionality was because they were…