Professor Beekums

APRIL 16, 2017

Imagine your web application goes down in the middle of the night. It’s 2 AM, but your business is global. You have users in every time zone. They’re angry. They’re unable to purchase things on your website or are canceling their subscriptions. Money is being lost every minute your web application is down. Suddenly, one of your developers is on the case!

Development 95

Development Software Software Website 95

The Polyglot Developer

APRIL 21, 2017

Not too long ago I wrote about containerizing a bunch of web applications and putting them behind an NGINX reverse proxy. This is because I’ve been exploring the possibility of taking all my personal applications and turning them into Docker containers for easy maintenance and portability. I currently use Digital Ocean and if I had to guess, I’m going to be using it for a lot longer as it is a great service.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization Servers Development 40

SQL Server According to Bob

APRIL 21, 2017

I recently visited a customer onsite and presented to them topics on SQL Server 2016. After the talk, I opened up the floor for the audience to ask me questions. One question I got went like this “I’ve tried to restore a database on SQL Server using the WITH STATS option. When I run the RESTORE the progress shows 100% but the restore is not complete and takes longer to actually finished.

Servers 40

Servers Database Processing Virtualization 40

Speed Curve

APRIL 17, 2017

We've improved the "Favorites" dashboard which now lets you build your own charts which: Combine synthetic tests and LUX (real user monitoring) in one chart. Choose average, median, or 95th percentile. Create charts that have multiple metrics. Select multiple values for a filter, eg, browser = Chrome or Firefox, country = UK or US. Compare A/B tests in a single chart.

Metrics 40

Metrics Monitoring Testing Performance 40

The Polyglot Developer

APRIL 17, 2017

I personally think that Golang is a great development technology and one of the better that I’ve used. However, there is no such thing as a perfect development technology. That said, there are things to be desired in Golang out of the box. For example, I always find myself wishing that I could use type assertions to decode map values into a defined Go data structure.

Technology 40

Technology Technology Development 40