We are excited to be attending the Microsoft Build conference. This is Microsoft’s premier developer conference and is the first year we will be attending as a Microsoft Partner.
Every developer wants to create great software that users can appreciate. Unfortunately, creating software that disappoints is easy. Conversely, creating high-quality software that users will appreciate is hard. Fortunately there are a number of things you can do and tools you can use to create high-quality software. This article will talk about those things that developers should know and tools they can use to create high-quality software.
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–Nicholas Allen, Program Manager, Web Services, Microsoft
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We have been working on AWS Lambda the last few days. As a part of that we had to get our Scala on. What better way that to read a few blogs and a book.
I have a serious concern with the EC2 Container Service. The way it is built facilitates use of infrastructure and not the use by applications. Just my opinion based on what I know so far.
Checking out a presentation on Amazon’s new Elastic File System.
I am sure many people get a call from someone that they have known forever saying “Help”. A good friend of mine called me up with just such a request. They had a m1.small Amazon AWS instance (which is very old).
I am still amazed that many developers when they create a feature or fix a bug that they don’t write a unit test (or functional test) to ensure that things work as expected. Years ago I had a developer on my team that would not write tests. The impact was that they would report a […]
I recently had a conversation with another architect about docker. We were discussing where I thought docker was applicable. Our discussion highlighted that he was concerned that docker was labeled “The Next Big Thing” and that everyone wants to use it because of the hype. He referred to docker as a “panacea” commenting on the […]
