are you a nerd?

technology

MINE

Jazz

Here's a track I wrote years ago and dug up to finish writing.  Recorded this just to get it out there :) I'm contrasting developing music and developing software in a hardcore rap kinda way, pretty entertaining.  Its a Developer theme song so enjoy!

BUY ON ITUNES: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1130114479?ls=1&app=itunes
SPOTIFY: https://play.spotify.com/album/6tEn57P0S0JdmkqEbtvW8X?play=true


This song was featured on TechCrunch!
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/03/ballmer-developers-rap/

Developers (feat. Steve Ballmer)

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller

Buckminster In Fuller Effect

In this week’s podcast, Thomas Betts talks with Chris Richardson, a developer, architect, Java Champion and author of POJOs in Action. Before his workshop on Microservices w/ Spring Boot and Docker at QCon San Francisco 2016, Richardson took time to discuss his ideas on how to use DDD and CQRS concepts as a guide for implementing a robust microservices architecture.

Why listen to this podcast:

 - "Microservice architecture" is a better term than "microservices".   The latter suggests that a single microservice is somehow interesting
 - The concepts discussed in Domain-Driven Design are an excellent guide for how to implement a microservices architecture
 - Bounded Contexts correspond well to individual microservices
 - Event sourcing and CQRS provide patterns for how to implement loosely coupled services
 - When converting a monolith to microservices, avoid a big bang rewrite, in favor of an iterative approach

Notes and links can be found on: http://bit.ly/2hZ8TM1

11m:51s - Microservices must be loosely coupled, usually creating a model with one database per service.
12m:45s - There is a business requirement to maintain data consistency across services, and using an event driven architecture is a good way to achieve that.
13m:38s - Event sourcing is specific technique for persisting domain objects as a series of events.
14m:11s - Just as transactions don’t like to be split across microservices, queries cannot simply join across multiple data sources. CQRS provides a solution that accommodates querying via microservices and materialized views.

More on this:
Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ. http://bit.ly/2hZ8TM1

You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq

InfoQ Podcast

Show Notes

Chris Richardson on Domain-Driven Microservices Design

Robots - The Podcast for News and Views on Robotics

Tensegrity Control

This week’s podcast features a chat with Vitor Olivier. Vitor is a partner at NuBank (a technology-centric bank in Brazil). This podcast hits on topics from several of Nubank’s recent QCon talks and includes things like: Nubank’s stack, functional programming, event sourcing, defining service boundaries, recommendations on reasoning about services, tips (or tweaks) on the second iteration of their initial architecture and more.

Why listen to this podcast:

- Property-based testing and Schemas (or Clojure.Spec)are complementary.
- Clojure’s functional nature and Datomic’s features are a match for Nubank’s requirements.
 - A (micro)service needs to be able to create the full representation of the core feature it’s handling.
 - GraphQL is useful to abstract away the distributed system complexity from the mobile (or frontend) developers.
 - Nubank’s uses a combination of monitoring and sanity checks in real time at various level to keep systems consistent. 
- Once an invariant is broken, the system will try to fix it automatically.

More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ http://bit.ly/2mnqyfK

You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq

Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq
Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8
Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ
Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq
Check the landing page on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2mnqyfK

Architecting a Modern Financial Institution with Vitor Olivier, Thoughts on Immutability, CI/CD, FP

Sander Mak and Wes Reisz discuss the Java module system and how adoption is going. Topics discussed on this podcast include Java modularity steps / migrations, green field projects, some of the concerns that caused the EC to initially vote no on Java 9, and a new tool for building custom JREs called JLink. Additionally, as Java 10 was recently released a short bit at the end was added to discuss some of the latest news with Java.

Why listen to this podcast:

• People quickly moved to Java 8 because of features like Streams and Lambdas. Java 9 has a different story around modularity and application architecture. Adoption is slower and more intentional.
• Migrating large codebases to use modularity is hard. Many of the projects using modules are greenfield, and those large codebases that are moving now are most often using the classpath.
• Jlink is a new command line tool released with Java 9. It allows developers to create their own lightweight, customized JRE for a module-based Java application.
• Java version scheme has dropped the 1.* prefix. Future releases of the JDK will have the version number and follow the form *.0.1 (i.e. 9.0.1)
• While the module system will likely show it’s benefit mostly for new development, many 3rd party libraries are moving to adopt modularity and removing their dependencies on JDK internal APIs. It’s improving the experience for teams adopting modularity.
• There are no known open JEPS regarding the enhancement of the Java module system.
• Java 10 has been released. The release features changes to the freely available Java versions, local variable type inference (var), experimental GRAAL JIT compiler, application class data sharing, improved container support/awareness, and others.

More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2DQ7ptx

You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq

Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq
Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8
Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ
Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq
Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2DQ7ptx

Sander Mak on the Java Module System

In this episode of the O'Reilly Podcast, Fluent Conference Speaker Series chair and author Kyle Simpson sat down with Brian Holt, a senior cloud developer at Microsoft. Holt will be teaching a training course, A Complete Introduction to React" and hosting a session "10 KB or bust: The delicate power of webpack and Babel" at the O'Reilly Fluent Conference in June. Simpson and Holt discuss the winding road to finding your way in the software industry, new changes to React, and optimizing the end user experience.

Brian Holt on Learning Javascript and Understanding How to Scale a Website

The Serverless Framework is quickly becoming one of the more popular frameworks used in managing serverless deployments. David Wells, an engineer working on the framework, talks with Wes Reisz about serverless adoption and the use of the open source Serverless Framework. 

On this week’s podcast, the two dive into what it looks like to use the tool, the development experience, why a developer might want to consider a tool like the serverless framework, and finally wraps up with what the tool offers in areas like CI/CD, canaries, and blue/green deployment. 

Why listen to this podcast:

 - Serverless allows you to focus on the core business functionality and less on the infrastructure required to run your systems.
 - Serverless Framework allows you to simplify the amount of configuration you need for each cloud provider (for example, you can automate much of the configuration required for CloudFormation with AWS)
 - Serverless Framework is an open source CLI tool that supports all major cloud providers and several on-prem solutions for managing serverless functions.
 - The serverless space has room to grow in offering a local development space. Much of the workflow today involves frequent deploy and scoping the deployment for different stages.
 - Serverless Framework is open source and invites contributions from the community.

More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2IWayeE

You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq

Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq
Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8
Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ
Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq
Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2IWayeE

Serverless and the Serverless Framework with David Wells

Wes Reisz sits down and chats with Uncle Bob about The Clean Architecture, the origins of the Software Craftsperson Movement, Livable Code, and even ethics in software. Uncle Bob discusses his thoughts on how The Clean Architecture is affected by things like functional programming, services meshes, and microservices.

Why listen to this podcast:

* Michael Feathers wrote to Bob and said if you rearrange the order of the design principles, it spells SOLID.
* Software Craftsperson should be used when you talking about software craftsmanship in a gender-neutral way to steer clear of anything exclusionary.
* Clean Architecture is a way to develop software with low coupling and is independent of implementation details.
* Clean Architecture and Domain Driven Design (DDD) are compatible terms. You would find the ubiquitous language and bounded context of DDD at the innermost circles of a clean architecture.
* Services do not form an architecture. They form a deployment pattern that is a way of decoupling and therefore has no impact on the idea of clean architecture.
* There is room for “creature comforts” in a code base that makes for more livable, convenient code.
* “We have no ethics that are defined [in software].” If we don’t find a way to police it ourselves, governments will. We have to come up with a code of ethics.

More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2Nebspj

You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq

Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq
Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8
Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ
Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq
Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2Nebspj

Uncle Bob Martin on Clean Software, Craftsperson, Origins of SOLID, DDD, & Software Ethics

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators. At O’Reilly, a big part of our business is paying attention to what’s new and interesting in the world of technology. We have a pretty good record at having anticipated some of the big technology developments in recent history. For instance, we launched the first commercial Web site, GNN, in 1993; we organized the meeting at which the term “open source” was first adopted; we were early investors in Blogger, which helped launch the blogging revolution; and more recently, our Web 2.0 conference launched a world-wide meme. We call this predictive sense the “O’Reilly Radar.” And while we’re certainly not always right, we are, at least, good at making interesting guesses.

Our methodology is simple: we draw from the wisdom of the alpha geeks in our midst, paying attention to what’s interesting to them, amplifying these weak signals, and seeing where they fit into the innovation ecology. Add to that the original research conducted by our Research team, and you start to get a good picture of what the technology world is thinking about.

Brian Holt on Learning Javascript and Understanding How to Scale a Website

O'Reilly Radar