Being Cellfish

In the late 90s I was asked to teach an "introduction to C for programmers" course at a large Swedish company. Turned out that my ...

Configuration files is something we have always been familiar with and with cloud services I think more and more configuration has started ...

When I was writing last week's post I also thought about how TDD (or rather BDD) has helped me to early detect violations of the single...

One of the most common arguments I've heard from TDD skeptics is that TDD does not drive your design. And this statement is both true an...

Having worked in Xbox Live I often get questions about its past.

Making simple REST API is easy but once you do more complex things you don't want to stick with the simple rules any more.

If you're working with a distributed system it is likely that you use eventual consistency to make your system scalable and robust but ...

When it comes to auto scaling I tend to see one of two approaches. But neither is actually good.

Anybody who is practicing TDD or BDD knows that it is important to abstract dependencies. Especially external dependencies you have no contr...

Last week I promised another leadership story so this time it will be from the military.