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Media Query Source: Part 2

The responses I provided to a media outlet on November 17, 2016: My responses ended up being included in an article by a small private college in San Diego alongside business owners and other consultants within the software industry. Extent of quote highlighted in orange. Above image from cited article.

Media Query Source: Part 1

The responses I provided to a media outlet on June 14, 2016: Media: What are the main reasons you participate in open source projects? Gfesser: I'm a heavy user of open source software and libraries. Documentation can be light or inconsistent, especially projects which move quickly from release

New Book Review: "Migrating to Microservice Databases"

New book review for Migrating to Microservice Databases: From Relational Monolith to Distributed Data, by Edson Yanaga, O'Reilly, 2017, reposted here: This book addresses a much-needed topic in microservices architecture: the database in the context of microservices. However, after reading several other books on microservices architecture, I found

New Book Review: "Reactive Microservices Architecture"

New book review for Reactive Microservices Architecture: Design Principles for Distributed Systems, by Jonas Bonér, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: This text provides an introductory look at Reactive microservices architecture, written by Jonas Bonér, co-author of the Reactive Manifesto. After a brief look at the general concept of microservices,

New Book Review: "Introduction to Apache Flink"

New book review for Introduction to Apache Flink: Stream Processing for Real Time and Beyond, by Ellen Friedman and Kostas Tzoumas, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: Good effort on the first (and currently only) book available on Apache Flink. As the authors comment in the introductory pages, the purpose

Ubuntu on Windows: Part 1

A couple weeks ago, I moved to Windows 10 with the new laptop I received (Dell 5510 32GB RAM), configuring it for dual boot mode with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I was just about to install Cygwin in Windows again, and then remembered a Microsoft announcement from about a year

Chicago Apache Flink Meetup (CHAF):Hands-on Apache Flink Workshop (February 21, 2017)

From the promotional materials: In this workshop, we will go over a hands on tutorial highlighting building a Flink stream processor. The workshop will show you how to 1. Set up a stream consisting of Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus tracker data 2. Use different types of windowing techniques to

New Book Review: "Microservices AntiPatterns and Pitfalls"

New book review for Microservices AntiPatterns and Pitfalls, by Mark Richards, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: As explained in the preface, the intention of the author is to introduce several of the more common antipatterns and pitfalls that emerge when using microservices. The goal here is to help readers

New Book Review: "RESTful Web API Design with Node.js (Second Edition)"

New book review for RESTful Web API Design with Node.js (Second Edition), by Valentin Bojinov, Packt Publishing, 2016, reposted here: Practical starting point for designing and developing REST services using Node.js, supporting frameworks such as Express and Passport, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB. Unlike many technical books

New Book Review: "Embedding Analytics in Modern Applications"

New book review for Embedding Analytics in Modern Applications: How to Provide Distraction-Free Insights to End Users, by Courtney Webster, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: In her introduction to this book, Webster comments that on any given day people use more than 20 different software applications, but while more