One item to keep in mind when investigating consuming or exposing REST APIs are the fallacies of distributed computing: The network is reliable. Latency is zero. Bandwidth is infinite. The network is secure. Topology doesn’t change. There is one administrator. … Continue reading →
I’m looking at a database table this morning, looking to optimize a few queries by adding some indexes. The trouble is, this table already has many indexes, all on different columns. So now I’m thinking, is this a smell that … Continue reading →
Recently, we’ve started migrating our application to more of a message-based architecture. This will be part of a bigger series on migrating to a messaging-based architecture, but one rather funny (or not funny, since we were in production) sid…