Null is sometimes considered the billion dollar mistake. One could argue about this forever, but certainly, null has lead to a lot of awful code. Most functional programming languages offer a concept called Option or Maybe to deal with the presence or absence of a...
Java 9 is on it's way and with it - maybe - Project Jigsaw. Project Jigsaw adds modularization to Java, which will change the way we write Java code. The recent public review ballot for JSR #376 (the Java Platform Module System, or JPMS for short) however produced a...
This post explores Terraform from a beginner's perspective. We'll look at the problem Terraform solves and what it's distinct features are. By using some rather simple examples we'll get a good feeling of how to use it in real life. We will build a running EC2...
In the last couple of years different companies tried different means for improving company culture.We at Senacor face basically the same challenges as non-consulting companies.Meaning: too much to do and not enough time to play, learn, innovate. So, in 2016 we tried...