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by timclark 2mo ago
I used war and peace to explain to a CEO how wasteful a mobile API was; twelve distinct items of data to display but we sent JSON larger than war and peace.
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by timclark 1y ago
The D in SOLID is for dependency INVERSION not injection. Most dependency injection that I see in the wild completely misses this distinction. Inversion can promote good engineering practices, injection can be used to help with the inversio
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by timclark 4y ago
Try flutter - in my experience it is the shortest path from idea to working application.
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by timclark 4y ago
In my experience this is a superb way to rapidly create bad integrations with AWS. Some of the simple things will be easy, everything else will be hard. Also instead of supplying an SDK, Amplify will provide components that can seriously co
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by timclark 5y ago
I wish I could upvote this more - if I can’t do it in CloudFormation I won’t use it.
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by timclark 5y ago
If you don’t know front end development Flutter can get you a very long way very quickly.
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by timclark 5y ago
The plastic and wooden winders make tables wobble as well in my experience.
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by timclark 6y ago
More accurately - Google migrates chrome application to web application. 'Google Kills Keep' is inaccurate.
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by timclark 6y ago
It depends on how you define your 'unit'; a unit can be as large or as small as you require. But, I'd suggest if you can't test a single class in isolation easily (and you might need fakes/mocks) then the class prob
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by timclark 6y ago
X can be a check digit. From memory the check digit is calculated using a modulo 11 calculation.
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by timclark 6y ago
A philosophy of software design - John Ousterhout This has an interesting generic discussion of API design which is technology agnostic.
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by timclark 6y ago
Read shorter books!
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by timclark 6y ago
I’ve seen one service per database table, and have had architects seriously think that a table equals a bounded context. Then they try to work out how to do two-phase commit across micro services.
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by timclark 6y ago
Having worked on multiple systems that have done similar things to this, I'd fall on the side of no! If you're not really careful the assertions will quickly obscure the actual logic (as does logging), a careless engineer can easi
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by timclark 6y ago
I got taught them in a course on linear systems which was a pre-requisite course to control theory. Lots of electrical circuits, mechanical systems and electro-mechanical systems can be modelled using laplace transforms if they are linear s
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by timclark 6y ago
You can minimise the number of gates but that doesn't minimise the number of transistors as that varies by the type of logical operation performed by the gate. Practically you probably care more about the number of transistors than the
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by timclark 7y ago
My key reading from the article was over-fertility leads to mono-culture, so paradoxically you need to reduce soil fertility to encourage diversity. Reducing soil fertility probably needs intervention to remove rotting vegetation etc. I am
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by timclark 7y ago
From memory go fmt will use both tabs and spaces when formatting but it uses tabs for indentation from the left margin and uses spaces for some alignment of variables - so it doesn't introduce any crazy interleaving of tabs and spaces
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by timclark 7y ago
How do you manage AWS credentials? We use short lived credentials that are stored in the standard file system location and expire frequently, can your application just use these? We gave up exporting permanent credential a long time ago.
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by timclark 8y ago
This doesn’t seem to offer useful authentication to me like public / private key pair can with JWT. In order to authenticate I will need to know the secret key.
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by timclark 8y ago
It has caused us failures as lambdas have scaled up as it is quite easy to hit a rate limit.
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by timclark 9y ago
Two similar books by Stansislaw Lem would be His Master's Voice and Fiasco.
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by timclark 9y ago
The article linked from here on integrated tests, http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/integrated-tests-... is also well worth reading.
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Should you put several event types in the same Kafka topic?(martin.kleppmann.com)
1 points by timclark 9y ago|0 comments
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by timclark 9y ago
How will cryptography libraries ever develop if someone doesn't roll their own?
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by timclark 9y ago
Adrift on the Sea of Rains by Ian Sales A Dream of Wessex by Christopher Priest
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by timclark 9y ago
Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans Implementing Domain Driven Design by Vaughn Vernon Clean Code by Robert Martin I think you will find some code in all of the books but the ideas are applicable almost everywhere.
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by timclark 10y ago
All those things that you mentioned are just implementation details that some people use with DDD, you can do DDD with assembly if you wanted to.
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Theory challenging Einstein's view on speed of light could soon be tested(theguardian.com)
3 points by timclark 10y ago|0 comments
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Use Junits expected exceptions sparingly(blog.jooq.org)
1 points by timclark 10y ago|0 comments

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