I am a total Java geek that lives in Brookfield - WI (Milwaukee), making my living as an architect/developer, spending all my time with Java, J2EE, OO, Linux, and open source. In my spare time, when I am not in front of my computers, I spend every other minute with my other loves: My wife and daughter, books, music, guitars, Formula-1 racing and SCI-FI shows like StarGate and others.
At work, I spend most of my time dealing with architectural and security issues with plenty of work and personal play-time going into discovering the latest tool, framework, etc that will allow us to work faster, smarter and deliver better results. A lot of my time is also spent fire-fighting issues and coming up with solutions to interesting problems. :)
[toread] The Future of Web Development – Hacker Noon – Spoiler: writing code is going to get a lot easier Eden Ella Jun 24 Prophesizing is no easy task — when looking at social phenomena (and web development is a…
[toread] Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful – Gabriel Weinberg Jul 5, 2016 2019 UPDATE: Since this post came out, I co-authored a book about it called Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models . You can…
[toread] Four bad ways to use RPA – Software Robots to the Rescue! Or Not?! Automation is often regarded as a mixed blessing. To some it’s the herald of impending job cuts, for others it opens up…
[toread] Principles of Chaos Engineering – PRINCIPLES OF CHAOS ENGINEERING Last Update: 2018 May Chaos Engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a system in order to build confidence in the…
[toread] GraphQL vs REST: putting REST to rest – When you need to build an API, your mind will likely jump to REST , the de facto standard for API creation. However, this is about to change with GraphQL , as…
[toread] HTTP headers for the responsible developer – This article is a written version of the talk “HTTP headers for the responsible developer”. You can check the slides or the recording . Being online is the…
[toread] Bohemian Wrapsody – Dmytro Danylyk Apr 21 “Wrapping third-party APIs is a best practice.” — Robert C. Martin Intro One of my colleagues told me that wrapping third-party libraries…
[toread] Run your containers on AWS Fargate – ITNEXT – Glenn Wedin Apr 19 Are you like me and want your containers up and running fast and simple and with as little configuration as possible? Then AWS Fargate might…
[toread] A Detailed Overview of AWS API Gateway – AWS API Gateway is an awesome service to use as an HTTP frontend. You can use it for building serverless applications , for integrating with legacy…
[toread] Serverless Architectural Patterns – Eduardo Romero Mar 4 Black and white clouds, atmosphere — Photo by Bryan Minear We’re building more and more complex platforms, at the same time that we are…
[toread] Where Warren’s Wrong – Senator Elizabeth Warren deserves credit: I have been writing about antitrust , particularly in the context of Aggregation Theory , for years, but the most…
[toread] Scott Knaster on Twitter – Scott Knaster @ scottknaster pic.twitter.com/CJQdqIFWvw Twitter by: Scott Knaster @scottknaster Kevin Marks @ kevinmarks Phil Shiller? Scott Knaster @…
[toread] Using Terraform and Serverless Framework – Image from wikicommons . The Serverless framework (SF) is a fantastic tool for testing and deploying lambda functions, but it’s reliance on cloudformation makes…
[toread] Famous laws of Software development – Like any other field, the world of Software Development has some interesting and famous rules, principles and laws. Programmers, developers, managers and…
[toread] PKI for busy people – PKI for busy people Chris Rehn Home RSS Public-key infrastructure (PKI) is an umbrella term for everything that has to do with certificate and key management.…
[toread] On Being A Principal Engineer – 6 min read The manager’s path I bought and read The Manager’s Path by the awesome Camille Fournier when it first came out. At the time, I was a senior Database…
[toread] Machine Learning for Everyone – Why do we want machines to learn? This is Billy. Billy wants to buy a car. He tries to calculate how much he needs to save monthly for that. He went over dozens…
[toread] How to teach Git – The problem I found Some of my professional experiences have involved participating in cross-functional areas, so I knew all my colleagues’ way of working. I…
[toread] AWS reInvent 2018 recap edition – AWS reInvent 2018 recap edition Slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. If you continue…
[toread] The secrets of learning a new language – 612,763 Views Lýdia Machová at TED Salon: Brightline Initiative Editor's note: This talk was presented at a TED Salon event given in partnership with Brightline…
[toread] The Friendship That Made Google Huge – The company’s top coders seem like two halves of a single mind. Illustration by David Plunkert One day in March of 2000, six of Google ’s best engineers…
[toread] Introduction to Web scraping with Java – Web scraping or crawling is the fact of fetching data from a third party website by downloading and parsing the HTML code to extract the data you want. Since…
[toread] The Ultimate VSCode Setup for JS/React – My The Ultimate Atom Editor Setup (+for JS/React) post is pretty popular, but not long ago I migrated to VSCode . Why? Speed, stability and TypeScript. Overall,…
[toread] Kite – AI-Powered Python Copilot – Introduction Python is the fastest-growing programming language out there. That isn’t surprising given that it’s simple, easy to use, free, and applicable for…
[toread] AWS Lambda Security Quick-Start Guide – In January 2018, the world's first Serverless Security Top 10 guide was published. The guide was an effort lead by PureSec together with industry thought…
[toread] Deep Learning Book Series · Introduction – The Deep Learning Book – Goodfellow, I., Bengio, Y., and Courville, A. (2016) This content is part of a series following the chapter 2 on linear algebra from…
[toread] IBM’s Old Playbook – The best way to understand how it is Red Hat built a multi-billion dollar business off of open source software is to start with IBM. Founder Bob Young explained…
[toread] Data is giving rise to a new economy – AN OIL refinery is an industrial cathedral, a place of power, drama and dark recesses: ornate cracking towers its gothic pinnacles, flaring gas its stained…
[toread] Developing a More Flexible Mind : zen habits – It’s my belief that a flexible mind helps us to deal with chaos, loss, big life changes, small frustrations, and all that life throws our way. A flexible mind…
[toread] Multi-Cloud Is a Trap – It comes up in a lot of conversations with clients. We want to be cloud-agnostic. We need to avoid vendor lock-in. We want to be able to shift workloads…
[toread] Apache Kafka with and without a Data Lake – Apache Kafka is a cornerstone of many streaming data projects. However, it is only the first step in the potentially long and arduous process of transforming…
[toread] A guide to logging in Java – Developers can use this guide to discover, understand and use the right Java logging library for their applications, like Log4j2, Logback, or java.util.logging.…
[toread] Serverless Web Scraping with Java – Serverless is a term referring to the execution of code inside ephemeral containers (Function As A Service, or FaaS). It is a hot topic in 2018, after the…
[toread] Ten Things Python Programmers Should Know – Update May 18, 2017 : It’s been almost four years since I wrote this originalblog post. It has become, according to Google Analytics, the most popular blogpost…
[toread] Hitchhiker’s Guide to AWS Step Functions – Announced during re : Invent 2016, AWS Step Functions is the spiritual descendant of the not-so-simple-to-use Simple Workflow (SWF) service. It addresses many…
[toread] On serverless, data lock-in and vendor choice – I’ve spent the last 5+ years, first at CircleCI and now at Serverless, talking with technology decision makers about their cloud adoption strategies. The number…
[toread] The 10 commandments of serverless – Feedbacks on Serverless with AWS Disclaimer: Despite the title, this is not a holy text. I discovered the serverless world in early 2016, when things were much…
[toread] Serverless: It’s much much more than FaaS – aka Data, Logic and Infrastructure — how do they fit together? I’ve been spending my time since leaving AWS thinking about some of the challenges around…
[toread] Serverless Instant Checkout Links with Square – Servers beware! Watch out containers! Our serverless overlords are here! There is a lot of hype around serverless and talk about it being the end of containers,…
[toread] Techie to tech lead: My five biggest mistakes – As a young, ambitious developer with a strong sense of my own talent, I was eager to become a tech lead, and it took less than four years for me to achieve this…
[toread] Ways to think about machine learning – We're now four or five years into the current explosion of machine learning, and pretty much everyone has heard of it. It's not just that startups are forming…
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