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The only possible java killer, standard C++
If you move in certain communities the habit is to criticize Java for being too verbose. I suffer this specially in Quora, where the programmers seem to be Scala worshipers that have find that verbosity is a big issue for a programming language, just a hint for the geeky developers: verbosity helps! It is not […]
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What is the correct way to become a full stack Java developer?
There is no correct way, but several paths that you can follow to become great at Java, here is a Civilization-Like technology tree
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Big architectures that use Java in real scenarios
– In a public local government (less than 8 millions habitants) they had 200 VM servers running Tomcats, PHP and Apache, quite inefficient software it was. – In our cluster farms we have customers who use applications waaaay back to java 1.3, and at the same time we create new projects with Java 6,7 and […]
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Explaining availability and DOS problems with League of Legends
For some mystical reason everything seems to work ok, we don’t really know why but as long as no one touches it everything will be cool Some as**ole touched something, while we try to find out what the f**k was touched (and postpone the manhunt for later) hold on to your boring life on sunday […]
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The League Of Legends snowballing QoS
Every one talks about QoS in the corporate world nowadays, with the SOA backbones and ESB products in a rampant evolution and implantation now it is imperative to provide specific parameters like MTTF or MTTR. Enter League Of Legends, the client-server real time tactic videogame that allows you to team up with the less cultivated […]
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Getting things straight about IBM BPM current solutions
In short: No IBM BPM product branch is getting terminated and you can mix them however you want. In detail: One day IBM decided to buy the Lombardi product family… and having their own BPM product line we all knew it was going to get complicated. The original product line was the “4 friends” WebSphere […]
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Bet on stable tech or passing fad: Ducksboard
Ready for another chapter of “passing fad or stable tech?”… well really I am not talking about an stable tech but an startup I put an eye on in 2012 when it was made public they got 500k euros in their second investment round keeping more than 50% of the stock (deeds for it in […]
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Google Panda & Google Penguin, I love you
Unique visitors to our sites are on an all time peak in the last months, not only does Alexa and Google search list us much better than last year but even better: everyone in the SEO world is disappointed about these changes and I love it. SEO has become related with tricking Google to believe […]
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WTF are you doing SAP
SAP was for a long time the top notch technology sign… those where the days, as far as we knew, but what are you doing now?, offering pseudo-standard web services and providing tools that make it nearly impossible to easily integrate your black box ABAP based systems with the modern World. Please don’t tell me […]
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MegaUpload consequences: sense and stupidity
Closing megaupload was a necessity given the amount of unlawful behavior they where proving, of course I am not one of the guys who saw HIMYM seasons 1 thought 6 using seriesyonkis.com here in Spain, if I WOULD have watched that entertaining series comfortably from the couch of my flat I WOULD (which I am […]