Blog: Actively Lazy (David Green) |
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What actually is software? It's obviously not a physical thing you can point at. If I imagine a specific piece of software, where does the s...
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We use ActiveMQ as our messaging layer sending large volumes of messages with a need for low-latency. Generally it works fine, however in so...
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Writing asynchronous code is hard. Trying to understand what asynchronous code is supposed to be doing is even harder. Promises are a common...
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Over a decade ago now I got my first team lead role. It was a reasonably unexpected promotion when the existing team lead left shortly after...
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Friction can be a very powerful force when building software. The things that are made easier or harder can dramatically influence how we wo...
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Software development is rife with copy & paste: all of us resort to copy and paste coding sometimes. We know we probably shouldn't, but we d...
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One of the lessons when practising TDD is to never trust a passing test. If you haven't seen the test fail, are you sure it can fail? Red Gr...
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One of the hardest things for companies trying to be agile is how to structure teams. Back in the bad-old days, teams would form around a pr...
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Cross-functional teams aren't a new idea. And yet, somehow, we still don't seem to have got the memo. I was listening to the excellent Scott...
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The world is becoming increasingly automated. Jobs that were once done by people are now frequently done by machines instead. This started o...
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