Month: November 2019
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KotlinJS: First impressions (formed by writing Snake) video
What it was like to write a snake game in KotlinJS: Slides: Snake in KotlinJS slides Code: github.com/andybalaam/snake
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Arbitrary Cache Timeouts
Like many other programmers I’ve probably added my fair share of caches to systems over the years, and as we know from the old joke, one of the two hardest problems in computer science is knowing when to invalidate them. It’s a hard question, to be sur…
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Arbitrary Cache Timeouts
Like many other programmers I’ve probably added my fair share of caches to systems over the years, and as we know from the old joke, one of the two hardest problems in computer science is knowing when to invalidate them. It’s a hard question, to be sur…
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Validate in Production
The change was reasonably simple: we had to denormalise some postcode data which was currently held in a centralised relational database into some new fields in every client’s database to remove some cross-database joins that would be unsupported on th…
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Validate in Production
The change was reasonably simple: we had to denormalise some postcode data which was currently held in a centralised relational database into some new fields in every client’s database to remove some cross-database joins that would be unsupported on th…