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QCon New York Day 3: Humans and engineers, Career Development, Remote Teams and Culture
Building a NoSQL database Man, my brain still hurts from the first two days, especially around all the clarities of micro-services. But, longing for more information, day 3 started with another keynote. Not as good as yesterday's, but the story about how Amazon build their own NoSql database con...
QCon New York Day 2: Freeing people, imperfect architecture, lean coffee and unanswered questions
That was the weirdest conference party ever. No music, no dancing, just free food and beer. Well, our of me, two Austrian guys and a fellow from Dakota had plenty of great stories to share. And did I mention the free beer? Freeing people and optimizing the tools As any good professional would do...
QCon New York Day 1: Micro-services, Team Latency and the Lean Enterprise
So now that I've got the unofficial part of this trip behind me and I managed to get through a very in-depth full day workshop on reactive extensions in JavaScript with my limited JavaScript experience, it is time for the main part of the conference. As is customary at QCon, each day always start...
The Staring Game aka The Art of Social Intelligence
So here I am in New York, all alone and looking for something fun to do during a rainy day preceding QCon New York. The Empire State Building was covered in clouds so what can you do? Well, you go to meetup.com and browse the many events that happen in a big city like this. Country dancing and ro...
Time to break with the past a.k.a. Fluent Assertions 3.0
Boy do I love the .NET community. Since I moved Fluent Assertions to Github, people have been creating 32 forks and provided me with 37 pull requests. In fact, release 3.0 has been made possible by the likes of Adam Voss (who provided a lot of those pull requests), Maarten Balliauw (for setting u...