Developers like to use booleans as flags. They’re a convenient way to indicate something as on/off, true/false, yes/no. But the problem is that booleans are not clear from calling code exactly what they do. For example: Does anyone in the… continue reading
Most projects announce to some kind of fanfare – some greater than others. We love to see a new open source project released, and we cheer when a new package is available that solves a problem, particularly if it’s a… continue reading
In my last post I talked about linking microservices together inside a single Docker network for easy communication between the services. For web developers, this poses an interesting problem: if we want to access the services from our local machines,… continue reading
In 1978, United Airlines Flight 173 crashed just short of Portland International Airport. Due to a landing gear malfunction, the aircraft was circling the area trying to resolve the issue; the copilot and flight engineer hinted to the pilot as… continue reading
If you have ever worked in a microservices architecture, you know that you have many related but separate services, often in isolated development environments. For example, you may have the identity service separate from the user creation service, which is… continue reading
For me, it started like so many inquiries do: with a Google search. I typed my query into Google, “what does it mean if you feel like the opposite gender”, and held my breath while Google worked its magic. That… continue reading
There are a plethora of articles online about how microservices are bad. And I tend to agree with many of them – microservices are often a solution in search of a problem, and when you have multiple services running and… continue reading
Last week I attended php|tek in Chicago. During the conference, a number of speakers espoused the value and importance of contributing to the open source community. Ben Ramsey talked about how his contributions to open source didn’t seem to be… continue reading