Pragmatic Programmer Issues

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NoSQL hype – Cassandra example

In last few weeks there was a lot of NoSQL hype, with more and more information about companies which migrate from rational databases such MySQL to NoSQL solution. There are a lot of pretty awesome NoSQL solution on the market, but from my point of view the most promising is Cassandra. Originally Cassandra was developed […]

Model Driven Architecture live or dead?

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In my wunderlist‘s “watch this” list I found this dinosaur movie to watch: MDA: A forlorn hope. by Uncle Bob. It was posted over two years ago and it was viewed almost 55 thousand times. MDA is easy isn’t it? The MDA Guid has only 62 pages. We need some modeling tools and another tool for […]

Monitoring and metrics – Yes, of course.

I always try to convince everybody to measure. The first reaction are very different, but after a while everyone come back and says “Wow! I didn’t realize how helpful metrics can be”. I’ve watched video: “Using Monitoring and Metrics to Learn in Development”  (by Patrick Debois from Atlassian) with pleasure. I use Atlassian tools and talk with few […]

Barkeep – code review tool

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Barkeep is very simply code review system. Your first steps should be to watched video on the project page, next you can simple try barkeep demo page. What amazed me was usage of vagrant. Vagrant is great tool you should have in your toolbox. Vagrant is tool to simplify environment setup. You can build your […]

kdb+ high performance, column-oriented, designed for massive datasets database

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Today data volumes are growing continuously. We need to do complex processing in real time. kdb+ try to solve that problem. It  includes q vector processing programming language (SQL-like). For example the New York Stock Exchange, which produce today a billion records per day ( in peaks over two billion), additionally it is over 200 GB […]

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