29th February 2024 is a few months away, hopefully a long enough time to find and solve your leap year bugs. So it’s time to look for them! In this video, we discuss the main challenges of DateTime and recommend how to avoid them and how to test easily to find your issues before they …
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How do we validate email addresses correctly? And why don’t we just validate by sending an email? Turns out, there are security considerations to take into account. In this video, Alex presents the main parts of email address validation, the reasoning for each of them, and a few tips on how to think and implement …
Does functional programming promote modular architecture? Do functional programming concepts lead to lower coupling and higher changeability? And what are some architectural patterns that use functional programming concepts? These are a few questions we answer in this video, using as inspiration two articles: Let us know in the comments if you have any questions or …
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The last video got some interesting reactions and we decided to reply. Also, Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon.com, published a very interesting article on the topic, called “Monoliths Are Not Dinosaurs” https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/05/monoliths-are-not-dinosaurs.html. Happy Learning!
The debate of microservices vs monoliths has been reignited by a blog post from the Amazon Prime Video Quality Analysis Team, detailing a case study of improved scalability and reduced operational costs after switching from a serverless architecture to a monolith. So are monoliths better than microservices or serverless? Does Amazon do things differently than …
Alex reacts to the latest InfoQ Architecture Trends article: https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecture-trends-2023/.
In a recent Twitter thread, Dave Anderson (ex GM and Tech Director at Amazon) has proposed a list of 10 commandments for legacy code. Do we agree with them? Watch this video to find out. Here’s the link to the thread: https://twitter.com/scarletinked/status/1645426515000139776?t=PpKqiMMEG-OVca2y0He5ow&s=09.
GPT-like systems seem to have taken the world by storm in the past few months. What does this mean for software development? Will it fundamentally change the way we develop software? And what should we expect in the next 6-12 months? We start to answer some of these questions in this video. Links:
Does the way you eat corn on a cob relate to your preferred programming style? This article says it does, so let’s look into it! Link: http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2010/08/analysis-vs-algebra-predicts-eating.html?m=1
When you think about type safety, what do you think about? Alex asked this question on social media, got some interesting answers, and ended up defining a few principles for a style of programming with “hidden types” as follows: A) I don’t define types for method and function parameters, or class membersB) I validate a …
