New Ragnar Functions
XSLT Tag Attributes
SBLD - The SSH Blacklist Daemon
New Server
The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software
The Second Wave of the API-first Economy
Web APIs: Enriched DX By Disallowing Unknown Fields
Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It
Feature Casualties of Large Databases
Sequences: A Modest, Contra-garden Travel Project
Tweeting for 10,000 Years: An Experiment in Autonomous Software
Living APIs, and the Case for GraphQL
Should You Build a Webhooks API?
Using Atomic Transactions to Power an Idempotent API
The Limits of Copy-on-write: How Ruby Allocates Memory
The Accidental Evangelist
A Comparison of Advanced, Modern Cloud Databases
Building Robust Systems with ACID and Constraints
In Pursuit of Production Minimalism
Is GraphQL the Next Frontier for Web APIs?
Why Doesn't Stripe Automatically Upgrade API Versions?
Using Canonical Log Lines for Online Visibility
Service Limits
AWS Islands
The Intrinsic Static Site
A Guide to Free CA-Signed Certificates
My Heroku Values
Exploring Object Hierarchies in Psql
Running at Stripe
Rate Limiting, Cells, and GCRA
Designing Alerts
A Month of Kinesis in Production
Kinesis Shard Splitting & Merging by Example
Guaranteeing Order with Kinesis Bulk Puts
Version Variants
Small, Sharp Tools
Dotfile Secrets and GPG
Command Exit Status
The Humble Data Warehouse
A Cheap X100S Filter Ring Hack
Elegant APIs with JSON Schema
Microservices
Healthy Anti-patterns
Why I Don't Want Your SDK in Production
BreakTime Classic
logfmt
Developer Accessible APIs
Scoping and OAuth 2
SOA and Service Stubs
Tracing Request IDs
Crossing Refactoring's Rubicon
In January 2001 two Java tools crossed Refactoring's Rubicon. Refactoring in Java now has serious tool support
The XP 2000 Conference
In late June over a hundred people gathered on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia to take part in the XP2000 conference to discuss Extreme Programming (XP) and other flexible methodologies.
Variations on a Theme of XP
One of the attractive things about XP is that it gives quite definite statements about what you should do to be doing XP. Furthermore that set of practices is carefully designed to fit together. Taking anything out has serious consequences. Yet one of the principles of XP and other agile methods is that they be self adaptive: that is you should change the process as you are developing the project.
Continuous Delivery Guide
It’s hard enough for software developers to write code that works on their machine. But even when that’s done, there’s a long journey from there to software that’s producing value - since software only produces value when it’s in production. he essence of my philosophy to software delivery is to build software so that it is always in a state where it could be put into production. We call this Cont
The Almighty Thud
Why you shouldn't write a lot of documentation.
How Standard is Standard UML?
What does it mean to have a standard UML, and why the standard doesn't standardize as many things as people think it does..
Writing with XML
For quite a while now, I've been doing most of my writing using XML - even to the point of writing my last book in XML. As I've mentioned this to people they've asked me a number of questions about my experiences, and that's been enough to prompt this little article on the whole thing.
UML Diagrams for Analysis Patterns
I'd intended to put together UML diagrams for the patterns in the book. As it turned out I've come the view that other things were more important. Some others did work on diagrams, however, so here there are some for chapters 2-5
