In Microservices architecture, you decompose your services in a set of fine-grained services. These services are full-stack software, from front end API down to …
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Good insights from this article:

How to strangle a legacy codebase

The strategy is simple:

Progressively delete the old code base, in favor of a new one. …

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Some time ago I stumbled upon this Hacker News discussion on how disable Spectre mitigation.

(For what Meltdown and Spectre is, refer to this article on 2018) …

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Voglio raccontarvi una storia, per spiegarvi quanto è difficile conciliare la vendita di un prodotto commerciale con lo sviluppo di un software "open". Al …

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On 2023 Ubuntu 18 LTS support will end, so I started to evaluate the next LTS release, Ubuntu 20.
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Log4jShell vulnerability

1. Kasperky article
2. https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day-update-on-cve-2021-45046/ with the following "news":If you have …

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In questo articolo del 2012, si legge che Reddit avrebbe un database da due tabelle.

Le due tabelle si chiamano "Cose" e "Dati" (i.e. …

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As a mid-life greabeard that started my career on Z/OS / MVS writing JCL and running COBOL and SAS jobs, I like JavaScript. It doesn't have the obtuseness of C, …

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Modern computer are very very very fast. C/64 was about 1Mhz and you can hangs it just throwing a 10.000 cycle in interpreted BASIC v2 language.

Slowest …

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Test driven development is a beast to tame. I like TDD but in the past it was quite difficult to achive, at least in a pure-consultant approach with a "turn …

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