How I once saved half a million dollars with a one character code change

Or four one liners every Java programmer should know

I have a programmer war story to share, but first a bit of more recent context.

Firebase DataSnapshot to Swift struct

How to convert Firebase DataSnapshot to Swift struct, cleanly.

The requirement was simple — an app to track attendance. It needed to pull down names, display them, and send the selected list to an…

Simple CRM using Spring 5, Hibernate and MySQL

Spring and Hibernate combine to quickly create this CRM

Are MVs useful?

When not to use materialized views

Green tests and ham

In which I attempt to make an nuanced point in the style of Dr Seuss

So you have code to be written and you know it is best
when you are writing that code to start with a test.
You’ve heard this from Charlie and Richard and…

Exploring Talend’s Real-Time Big Data Platform

Real-Time data processing is gaining more attention these days as it helps to make business decisions quickly. As a data engineer, I think this is the right time to explore the proficiency of ETL tools in processing real-time data. From the…

The Gap Between Architecture and Development (Part 1)

Translating a programming language into code is trivial thanks to compilers and interpreters. However, translating architectural design into programming languages is something that we, as computer scientists, have not really solved yet.