How much do you invest in yourself? It is remarkable how little we tend to invest in ourselves, when this is one of the highest return investments we can make. High Return Those who invest the most in themselves tend to be the ones that end up making the most. The most obvious examples of … Read more
Command Query Responsibility Segregation is an overloaded “term”. It is often confused or muddled with Event Sourcing. The two can go together nicely, but they do not have to. What Is It CQRS is really the principle and practice of separating data reads and data updates. This does not dictate at which layer that separation … Read more
Sometimes, technologies become such a hot buzzword that they are hard to really figure out what they are about. And where they are useful; what problems they are meant to solve. GraphQL is one of those technologies. Confusion I had originally thought that GraphQL had something to do with Graph databases. That seems to be … Read more
I have written here before about the concept of learning. It seems to me that developers seem to be bad at learning. This is concerning given the pace at which our industry changes. Learning Curves Some of this learning reluctance could be chalked up simply to how daunting the task can be. Many tools have … Read more
Playing is the best way to learn. Children love playing. It is simply what they do; and that is fantastic. That is how they learn. As we grow older, we view playing as something the kids do. If we happen to have children ourselves, we will perhaps play with them, but outside of that, we … Read more