Starting a New Project – Let’s Choose a Tech Stack!

The post outlines the initiation of a new project for a multi-tenant music collector’s database. The objectives include personal use and sharing with others, along with the selection of tech stacks. The project aims to provide a personalized, secure, and collaborative platform for enthusiasts to manage and appreciate their vinyl collections efficiently. Key decisions include... Continue reading →

A Story of an Ivory Tower Architect Clusterfuck

Astronaut Architect or Ivory Tower Architect – Both of these are generally terms of dirision toward software architects who have become disconnected from anything related to actual implementation, coding, or related knowledge and work that has to do with the work of building software applications and services. Astronaut Architecturalism or Ivory Tower Architecturalism – Topics... Continue reading →

Survey of Go Libraries for Database Work

Over the past few months I’ve picked up a number of libraries in the Go ecosystem to help me get work done around database engineering. These libraries are ones that I have used to do a range of work primarily around Apache Cassandra, DataStax Enterprise, PostgreSQL, and to a lesser degree MS SQL Server, MySQL,... Continue reading →

Creating Distributed Database Application Starter Kits

I’ve boarded a bus, and as always, when I board a bus I almost always code. Unless of course there are people I’m hanging out with then I chit chat, but right now this is the 212 and I don’t know anybody on this chariot anyway. So into the code I go. I’ve been re-reviewing... Continue reading →

Let’s Really Discuss Lock In

For to long lock-in has been referred to with an almost entirely negative connotation even though it can be inferred in positive and negative situations. The fact is that there’s a much more nuanced and balanced range to benefits and disadvantages of lock-in. Often this may even be referred to as this or that dependency,... Continue reading →