Professor Beekums

DECEMBER 11, 2016

UPDATE 2017-01-01: This post has a follow up. Most engineering organizations will have to answer the question: “What makes a software developer a senior developer?” This is a challenging question because it is extremely subjective. Search for the answer on the internet and you will get many different answers. Some will contain criteria that are also subjective themselves which adds additional difficulty to the question.

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The Polyglot Developer

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Observables. Native To The Web Platform? One of the common misconceptions in the web world is that RxJS is an “Angular thing”. What most developers don’t realize is that Observables are on their way to becoming native to the web, and if you aren’t already using them to handle asynchrony, you are not adequately preparing yourself for the future. The Best Way To Handle Asynchrony.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's m

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The Polyglot Developer

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Almost two years ago I wrote an article explaining how to determine if a number is prime or not using JavaScript. It turns out this article became more popular than I thought it would, and if I had to guess, it might be because it is a good computer science and overall interview question for new career developers. I thought it would make sense to revisit the post, but this time focus on accomplishing the task with the Go programming language instead of JavaScript.

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