I saw a good talk on EDA at work. I’ve seen talks and talked to people who are doing some event-driven stuff, but this talk seemed much more fleshed out. There were a few concepts that came out of this talk that I like: The speaker also recommended a couple of books.
I was playing around with the NewType pattern in Rust by coding a set of length quantity types. As usual, that means a set of similar crates wandered into my view:
A 4.5 year old tweet about serverless: https://twitter.com/kylerankin/status/1067576106352427008 It’s much easier to understand #serverless apps once you realize they are just CGI scripts from 20 years ago, but with proprietary interfaces so you are locked into one provider. #devops — Kyle Rankin
Following up on the different types of IDs from last time, it’s often useful to have an ID that can be sent in a URL. The unique ID may not be appropriate for many reasons. Many systems use something called a slug for this purpose. A slug must be unique, but can change under some… Read More »
Several times in my career, I’ve needed to deal with data structures that lasted more than a short period of time. Sometimes they were actual objects, sometimes just collections of data that belong together without any actual behavior. Many times these structures needed to be stored somewhere. When working on projects like that, I find… Read More »
I need to write up a rebuttal of 5 line code principle. My experience has been that it is sometimes useful to extract a concept as a method when it makes sense by itself and can be named. If you can’t think of a good name that covers the concept, then you don’t have a… Read More »