Circular Dependencies in Dependency Injection

In which we discuss a circular dependency issue we got into, how we got out of it, and some general software principles that we applied along the way.

Spring Inversion of Control vs Guice Dependency Injection

Surprises from Polling Kinesis

Some surprising things discovered about Amazon Kinesis while working on…

Understanding the Repository Pattern

Create a wrapper around your data access logic with a db agnostic…

Do or Do Not: Patterns and Antipatterns with the Try type

Not-So-Magic Data Binding in D3.js

I finally came to grips with how to properly use D3.js and started…

Tightly Coupling a Service and its Config

An argument for keeping your service tightly coupled to its…

Managing Security, Reliability, and NPM

How can we avoid depending on garbage or malicious packages?

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Contributing Overview

What We Are, What We Aren’t, and What We Want

What We Are

Software Ascending is a publication that aims to rise above the noise floor of Medium’s most popular software topics; not necessarily by views, reads…