About the ‘D’ in ACID Transactions
I just got prompted to write this in an email reply and I think it's worth sharing. My personal definition for ACID's Durability tenet is as follows: "The outcome of the transaction out...
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Are you catching falling knives?
as I thumb through some people's code on Github, I see a fairly large number of "catch all" exception handling cases. It's difficult to blame folks for that, since there's generally (and ...
Going Home
After just over six years in the United States, our family is going to relocate back to Germany sometime in the second half of this month. Thanks to a lot of effort by our management and...
Sagas
Today has been a lively day in some parts of the Twitterverse debating the Saga pattern. As it stands, there are a few frameworks for .NET out there that use the term "Saga" for some...
“I want to program my firewall using IP ranges to allow outbound access only to my cloud apps”
We get a ton of inquiries along the lines of “I want to program my firewall using IP ranges to allow outbound access only to my cloud-based apps”. If you (or the IT department) insist on ...