Platform Engineering: Building an Internal Developer Platform
Platform engineering is DevOps done right. Or maybe it’s DevOps with a product mindset. Either way, it’s the recognition that telling …
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21 articles about software development, tools, and best practices
Python Type Hints and Static Analysis in Production Codebases
If you’re writing Python without type hints in 2026, you’re making life harder for everyone — including future you. I held out for a …
Read Article →Python Async Programming: asyncio, Tasks, and Real-World Patterns
I avoided asyncio for years. Callbacks, event loops, futures — it all felt like unnecessary complexity when threads worked fine. Then we had an API …
Read Article →Programming Languages Series
1. Introduction
Welcome to our Programming Languages Series! In this series, we’ll explore various programming languages, understand their …
Read Article →Product Update: ADD becomes Serengeti
As a product update; The “Autonomous Distributed Database”, otherwise known as simply ADD has been renamed to Serengeti.
The Serengeti is …
Read Article →Timing Issues in Real-time systems
What are Real-time Systems?
If you look up the term “real-time” in a dictionary, it will tell you that it is the actual time during which …
Read Article →Communications and The Software Development Process
Software Engineering or the Software Development Process is broken down into the following phases.
- Requirements
- Design
- Implementation
- Verification …
Structured and Object-Oriented Programming
Software development has really come a long way over the past few decades.
Programming used to always be about doing things in a very procedural way, …
Read Article →Converting from Legacy to Client-Server or Distributed Systems
What is a legacy system?
A legacy system is a computing system that has been around for a very long period of time, tends to be difficult to maintain, …
Read Article →Conceptual Architectural Views, with a focus on the Development View
What is Conceptual Architectural Views?
Architectural views are abstractions, or simplifications, of the entire design, in which important …
Read Article →Assessing Reusable Parts in a Software Architecture
During the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) the development team will come to realise that parts of any application have already been created …
Read Article →An Introduction to 2-Tier and 3-Tier Client-Server Systems
All software systems can be grouped in either a 2-tier or a 3-tier formation.
The former is essentially where all clients contain application and …
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