barryhennessy

I'm budgeting for a new project and it struck me that I've no idea how much faith I should really put into a cloud pricing calculator. (e.g. AWS' https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html) It's complicated enough…

I think decision making is one of the most important things we do as software engineers (not to mention other disciplines). How you manage decisions in your teams? Do you have heavy process, lightweight, none? What…

You have a system broken into components. Some custom built, some off-the-shelf. Any of them might need to send a message to a customer. How do you manage: * Tracking (and auditing) who is receiving what messages. * Let…

I want to write events to a calendar, keep them up to date and perhaps cancel them on reasonably short notice. While supporting any calendar app (not just Google Calendar). How have you solved this in the past (or…

I periodically hear about projects that use/have used sqlite as their sole datastore. The theory seems to be is that you can test out an idea with fewer dependencies (and cost) and that it scales surprisingly far. There…

You've had an iOs and Android MVP built by an agency, you're about to go live and officially handover, what's in your go-live checklist? Bonus points: it has a 'serverless' backend in AWS