Old Software Was Fast Because It Had No Choice
A few weeks ago we were discussing a Java component that starts a Spark cluster. Its job is mostly coordination. It starts the machinery, passes configuration around, waits for...
Archive June 2026
Posts published in June 2026.
Too Liked to Be Useful
I often get surprised when I hear someone say they like a certain manager. I usually have very different reservations about them in my head. The gap between what I think and wha...
Vibe Coder vs Software Engineer
More than a decade ago, I wrote about . At the time, I didn’t realize how deeply people had tied their professional identity to Java. My goal was to distinguish between someone...