Custom laptop
Time for a new laptop, as my current laptop is over five years old. Currently looking for a new laptop. I enjoy some customization, so I have gathered an overview…
Author: gerbrand
Something wrong with your data warehouse?
Why do data-teams struggle to add value? Why do so many data warehouses and data initiatives fail to add value? Want to know more? Or a more nuanced view? Use…
Snowflake primary keys woes
In my work I have used Snowflake quite a lot. The so called Data Cloud is very popular. Getting started is easy.One of the issues I have with Snowflake, it’s…
Three body problem, Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy
Recently I finished the trilogy starting with the Three-Body Problem, Remembrance of Earth’s Past. If you haven’t heard, it’s a science fiction series created by the Chinese author Liu Cixin.…
Schema registries in Kafka and how they’re used
Short introduction: if you use Kafka you’re most likely dealing with various kind of messages. You store the schema of each message in a schema-registry. But how does Kafka use…
Using OpenAPI in Scala
Modern software development is for a large part integrating with other software. To integrate with other software you use the API software you want to integrate with. An API can…
Using the Woocommerce API
If you want to host your own webshop, Woocommerce is a popular option. You can install it as plugin to WordPress. Using plugins your shop can be extended with different…
Elixer and Phoenix Liveview
A car as metaphor, and featuring yet another introduction to functional programming, yet I liked reading This is the Future of Webdev. Crazy, Right? on Elixir, and Phoenix Liveview, a…
Inside the Machine
After a recommendation on Twitter, I start read the book Inside the machine by Jon Stokes, available as paperback and also somewhere as ebook. The book describes the design and…
Micro-architecture
You may have think about the high level architecture of your software, but have you thought about the micro-architecture? Watching a keynote by James Mickens about micro-architecture. Very basic said,…