One of the most path-breaking innovations as part of the Git effect is the creation of pull requests. In this blog we are going to cover: What is a pull request? The juggernaut of the pull request. The innovation gap. What is a Pull Request? In its simplest form, a pull request is a…

Databases and Data Management Systems have existed even before computers learned how to count time (epoch time: 1st January 1970). It’s another matter that computers had to relearn how to count time at the dawn of the new millennium. Databases became mainstream with the introduction of the relational database management…

I started my career in the software industry during the era of large Sun Microsystems SPARC server racks. Those servers were expensive, durable, and (some would say in private) the status symbol of startups. It was the era of eternal gods with no mortals in the sight. When Google first…

As covered in previous blogs, my favorite software design and architecture principles are: The Git Principle The Maven Principle The Principle of Immutability In this blog, I am going to cover the principle of immutability. This is the only principle that is not a side-effect of technology or framework among…

The open-source movement was born in the late 90s with the establishment of the Apache Software Foundation. It was the era of dominance of Microsoft in particular and Four Horsemen, i.e., Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, and Dell in general. IBM is conspicuous by its absence in this list, and that may…

If design patterns were the atoms of software architecture, design principles are the molecules or even compounds. When gang-of-4 (“Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software”) design patterns were published first-time in 1994, software architecture was not so complex. Over the years, a lot of modifications and enhancements were suggested…

Whenever a new technology trend takes off, a funny problem arises the problem of prefixes. I have covered prefixes for different Kubernetes distributions in an internal document a few months back and I will make it public soon. Today I am going to have a funny take on different flavors…

While in the cloud-native world a lot of artifacts have been slowly abstracted and automated, pre-production environments are still created using hand-crafted scripts. To make matters worse, every team like development, QA, DevOps, security have their own snowflake environment & snowflake pipelines to determine whether a pull request is ready…

When it comes to managing modern applications, a lot of evolution in recent years has been in creating fusion roles and fusion teams primarily between development and operations organizations in a company. In this blog, we are going to cover the key innovation which has enabled effective integration of the…