DuckDB Explorations: Approaching data persistence in exploratory situations In software, I believe exploration and experimentation means a delicate balance of just enough infrastructure, easily changed decisions, simplicity until the last possible moment, and as small a complexity surface area from your tools as you can manage. In my work using…| blog.wilcoxd.com
These days most of my analysis - or even short scripts! - start in GToolkit. GToolkit’s paradigm of executable notebooks - with human viewable results - means I can write a script, do my business logic, and not focus on display formatting (much). Awesome! As part of my weekly bujo review I want to list all the PRs I’ve closed, on Github, in the…| blog.wilcoxd.com
Intro For a good sized microservice herd it’s important to know how these services relate to each other. How much internal traffic does X service get, what’s the order of the microservices from the user’s request point of view, etc etc. Drawing this diagram shouldn’t, but often is, engineers “just knowing” the system in their heads then putting it…| blog.wilcoxd.com
A few days of vacation for me usually means a time to relax, recharge a bit, do things with the family, catch up on TODO items, and play with new tech I’ve been meaning to play with or make progress on projects of my own. Today I experimented with GToolkit a moldable software analysis framework built on top of Pharo Smalltalk. What I really want is…| blog.wilcoxd.com