Big Data and Software Engineering
Short introduction: if you use Kafka you’re most likely dealing with various kind of messages. You store the schema of each message in a schema-registry. But how does Kafka use…
Continue Reading Schema registries in Kafka and how they’re used
Modern software development is for a large part integrating with other software. To integrate with other software you use the API software you want to integrate with. An API can…
If you want to host your own webshop, Woocommerce is a popular option. You can install it as plugin to WordPress. Using plugins your shop can be extended with different…
A car as metaphor, and featuring yet another introduction to functional programming, yet I liked reading This is the Future of Webdev. Crazy, Right? on Elixir, and Phoenix Liveview, a…
Onlangs heb ik me geregistreerd bij een van de vele crowdfunding-platforms die er inmiddels zijn, Collin Crowdfund. Inherent aan zulke platforms moet je een flow van formulieren door. Dat werkte…
For over two years I’ve programmed nearly exclusively in Scala on the backend, while using mostly JavaScript and TypeScript on the frontend. Before that I mostly used Java for over…
Swagger is a great way make your api accessible. Not only documentation is provided, but your users, your co-developers or your self can try out your api. But what if…
While looking browsing at Quora I found this posting by a professor in New Zealand on why certain programming languages are taught at universities while being suboptimal for teaching. Reminds…
Cobol can be compiled into Javascript and you can call Javascript from Cobol, as I read in this article on arstechnica. Will this finally be the way out for all…
Any organization that develops software has a lot of software around that could be potentially reused. Reusing software is of course a good thing. Serendipity, accidentally coming across useful code…