DISCLAIMER: I’m not a fan of monoliths per se but I’m against the common idea that monoliths are the absolute evil regardless. There was a time, and it was less than a decade ago, in which software developers (and architects) were subliminally suggested that the best way to build scalable web applications was to createContinue reading “A Quick Cost/Benefit Analysis of Monoliths”
Category Archives: Software Pills
End-to-end AI Solutions
The rationale behind “AI Is Just Software” is that plain AI black-boxes alone are meaningless for customers. Customers, instead, need end-to-end solutions in which the power of AI black boxes is unleashed within the boundaries of a software-based pipeline that solves a business problem.
The Greatness of Human Thought
The journey towards computation started in the Middle Age and ended in 1931 when Kurt Gödel proved that, within the limits of a consistent formal system, any reasoning could always be expressed as a set of formal rules and then, in some way, mechanized.
A Quick Cost/Benefit Analysis of Microservices
I’m not questioning FaaS and I’m not questioning containerization. I’m just questioning the size of microservices and if it’s the size of a bounded context, please, let’s just call them services or applications.
A Quick Cost/Benefit Perspective of TDD
With TDD principles (but not necessarily practices) any single method is testable by design and your code is clean and understandable. Even without unit tests.
A Quick Cost/Benefit Perspective of Unit Tests
Unit tests are a significant development cost. However, the interesting question is another: when is this cost worth? Sometimes it is; sometimes not.
Pragmatic Opinions 