Kilpse Blogging

Interactive web applications are always more appealing than static sites. This blog explores using the klipse plugin to add interactive code snippets to this blog. Very often seeing the output of …

User-defined build settings for Bazel builds

Text fingerprints

Installing built binaries locally with Bazel

Go and Bazel to build containers

Yesterday I spent some time experimenting with building containerized Go applications. Writing a small restful web service in go is really quite straightforward and there are many better examples out …

Technical Health over Technical Debt

Ward Cunningham is credited with the first use of the team Complexity as Debt or Technical Debt (YouTube video) as a metaphor poor software implementation. For a software application or system …

At the start of my career I worked with fairly dumb terminals and mainframes. Programs were natively compiled but resources were limited and shared with the other users of the system. Shared computing …

Orchestration and Choreography are often discussed as design options for event driven systems. Some use the term interchangeably while others feel that the two are very distinct. I am in the later …

Risk is typically expressed as a function of likelihood and severity or impact. Probability is an important factor but this article is about understanding the potential impact of change on a …

The path to a million (loc)

Over the last month or so I have been writing some data collection and simple analysis routines for the things we (developers) use every day. The ultimate goal is to have a system that can collect, …