Ramblings on Big Data, Books, Tech..
For the first time in over a decade, how I develop software has fundamentally changed.I realized recently that I’m no longer evolving the code directly.Instead, I’m designing the environment in which the code evolves. Software development becomes designing the evolutionary environment instead of manually evolving the code. AI has made the cost of certain parts … Continue reading AI Driven…
Uncomfortable Truth: AI is already better than most junior developers at writing production-grade code. The impact will be felt first by graduates. For the last year I’ve been using AI intensively on real projects with hundreds of users including commercial software with paid users. I wanted to record and share some of those learnings: 1. … Continue reading AI is replacing programmers. Graduates…
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9o6gPQA6LA&t=3s Business is never a fair fight. Incumbants have an advantage. Startups have to change the battlefield/game so they have an unfair advantage. Coming up with good idea: Inflections Insight Founder / Future Fit What do successful Startups Do? Story Telling
9/10 – Great book that ties together many news stories you will have read about over the years.
Overall: 8/10 I can recommend a Philosophy of Software Design Paperback by John Ousterhout. I’ve been programming for 15 years and it closely parallels my own current beliefs about programming. He stands above the lower aspects of programming/code/modules, raising the discussion to a conceptual level, that you seem to be wanting. If I had read … Continue reading Book Review: Philosophy of Software…
I’ve decided to create a new SQL documentation website for H2: sqldock.com/h2 Why? Hopefully others find it useful. Let me know what you think.
Everyone seems to jump straight to hibernate and not consider alternatives and when to use each. Let’s look at this afresh. We want to create a SAAS or self-hosted app and for any modified entites to be persisted. Entites being users, teams and widgets. Imagine something like a simple github json API server where users … Continue reading Hibernate sucks but what’s the alternatives? Java…
Podcasts I listen to: Below I will make notes on specific podcasts and what I took away from them:
I’m on quite a few slack channels and I got a message today on the radpanda/kafka slack: Which if you follow to their website (Aiven): For end consumers this is good, get reliable hosting from a “big firm” that supplies many other systems that you may use. For bigtech it’s a win as it will … Continue reading The End of Open Source tech SAAS Companies? →
I have an old page: legendary quotes. As I gather new ones, I will add new ideas here and prune them over time: “Just recently I came to a realization, people and organisations exist in a competency / incompetency matrix. The competent orgs with incompetent people are your blue chips and “traditional” companies. They ship … Continue reading Ongoing New Quotes / Articles →