Many developers were burned by the overly complex world of Java back in the early 2000s. The Gang of Four patterns and middleware / J2EE / Java EE led to ridiculous levels of alleged decoupling as is evident in this sequence diagram from an open source J... (more…)

Can we compare programming languages? Can we ever say that subject to some criteria one language is better  than the alternatives? Very hard...

Java virtual machines (JVM) use built-in garbage collection (GC) technology to automatically manage memory usage within the Java heap. When an allocation failure occurs, a GC cycle is triggered to reclaim memory from objects that are no longer referenced.... (more…)

At Cash we love AWS DynamoDB. It has a nice API, is highly available, and is able to scale with our growing business. (more…)

invesdwin-context-r - Integrate R functionality with these modules for invesdwin-context (more…)