Reactive re-engineering with Akka

Everyone once in a while during the life cycle of any given piece of software comes that time where you have the opportunity to improve it in a major way….if that is, its lucky enough to still be in production. One particular system I’ve been involved with is responsible for processing a lot of data […]

Review: 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know

This is a book review for “97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know” by O’Reilly with dozens of contributors. This book is a quick read at roughly 200 pages and is targeted towards those folks who find themselves in the role of the “software architect”. Many of the contributors will be names you recognize such […]

Review: Release it!

This is a review of the book “Release it!” by Michael T. Nygard Go get this book. That is the short of this review. This is an excellent book, mainly targeted towards architects however I think developers should read it too. The author does an great job throughout the book showing how small issues can […]