My journey into the GIS world
Most people in software development are familiar with time-aspect of data. Data can have a certain time, like events or a certain period. By now there are good tools and…
Category: Technology
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…
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…
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…
Zoekmachines, overal zoekmachines
Zoeken en vinden Wat is de overeenkomst tussen sites als Funda, Booking.com, Marktplaats, Autotrader, Gaslicht.com (en andere Bencoms), Thuisbezorgd, Independer en vele andere vergelijking-, marktplaats- en boeking-sites? Ze zijn gespecialiseerde…
Low-code en RAD
Onlangs heb ik me geregistreerd bij een van de vele crowdfunding-platforms die er inmiddels zijn, Collin Crowdfund. Inherent aan zulke platforms moet je een flow van formulieren door. Dat werkte…
Back and forth from Scala to Java
For over two years I’ve programmed nearly exclusively in Scala on the backend, while using mostly JavaScript and TypeScript on the frontend. Before that I mostly used Java for over…
Encrypt your disks
If you have a laptop, you should always encrypt your harddisk. If you have not already done, make this your new year’s resolution – better yet, do it today. Loosing…
Cobol in nodejs
Cobol can be compiled into Javascript and you can call Javascript from Cobol, as I read in this article on arstechnica. Will this finally be the way out for all…