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New post on the Chegg Tech Blog

by pierce • May 29, 2013 • 0 Comments

My latest post is about making sure you have enough states in your Service Oriented Architecture to make the system robust. You can check it out here.   Posted with Blogsy

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Why I don’t think MySQL is a good choice for the cloud

by pierce • April 6, 2013 • 0 Comments

Databases are all about I/O speed. If you believe that 20% of the data is 80% of the queries, then any database over five times RAM is too large to be fast. In most businesses data over a year old…

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Cupcakes instead of Layer Cakes and Mocks for Integration Testing

by pierce • September 17, 2012 • 0 Comments

At every company I’ve ever worked at we needed more automated tests. The problem is that you can only do so much with Unit Tests in Cloud/Enterprise development. You need “integration tests”, but those become a huge pain in the…

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Your Mileage May Vary: Why I bought a Volt

by pierce • June 5, 2012 • 5 Comments

So it was time to replace my much loved Honda CR-V. I’d owned it almost 12 years, I’d put 141,000 miles on it, but it had reached that age where there was going to be a succession of little hassles…

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Apple should offer a public cloud

by pierce • March 3, 2012 • 0 Comments

Apple needs to become a public cloud provider. This will be an ambitious undertaking because frankly, they’re very far behind Amazon. But if they did so, it would be hugely successful. Because these days, every app you see ends up…

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To Office for IPad or not to Office for iPad

by pierce • March 2, 2012 • 0 Comments

  So there were rumors this week that Microsoft was going to ship a version of Office for iPad. I have no opinion one way or another whether they will or not. But I admit to being intensely curious about…

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