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Software Delivery Platforms 2019
We are starting a new “SaaS” project.
After working for 5 years on a project with a rusty “enterprise” deployment solution (Weblogic!, š… not my fault), I’m now evaluating options to build a modern “software delivery platform”. It’s almost 2020 and “devops” evolved a lot in the last few years.
This post is a disorganized dump of my thoughts and findings.
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Why React?
The project team wants to move away from AngularJS (v1) for all new modules. What do we choose instead?
Angular 2+ (now at version 6) is the obvious first option.
This article is an attempt to explain why I prefer React instead.
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Catching a Wave
I think Google Wave could become a big thing. The idea of replacing emails with feeds of conversations is not a new one. I remember brainstorming about this with friends, and here is an old article around this idea from an ex coworker.
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Career move
Today is is my last day as an Oracle employee. “Fired? Lay offs?” No, I decided to leave. “What happened?” Nothing, really. I was working with nice people, in a good environment, doing interesting work, getting a good salary.
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Practical API Design
I wrote about API design guidelines before, collecting links, resources, papers and hoping someone would write a book on the subject. The wait is over! Jaroslav Toulash published a book on Practical API Design!
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Oracle eats BEA
To me, BEA was the big fish not long ago. Today, BEA is the small one in the mouth of Oracle. We are in a steep ride, jumping quickly from a start-up to becoming part of BEA and now of Oracle.
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Content-aware image resizing
Watch this video demonstrating some cool algorithms for resizing and cropping images. They analyse the content of the image and try to remove/add/stretch/shrink only those areas of the image that are less relevant.
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Online Mind Mapping
A couple of smart friends of mine are strong advocates of mind maps, so much in fact that they had nothing better to do than develop http://wisemapping.com. It’s a pretty impressive online mind-mapping tool with everything you’d expect these days from a web two-oh application: rich UI, collaboration, tagging, sharing.
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Moving back to Argentina
In March, I accepted a new position within BEA, to work for BEA Argentina. After more than six years in the U.S., my wife and I were thinking about moving back to Argentina.
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Violating Java's privacy
I found myself in the need to invoke a private method of a Java class that was out of my control. I really needed it. So, I went ahead and violated the method’s privacy declaration via reflection.
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