I graduated from college 25 years ago: a millennium in programmer career, as our technology changes every six months. Even back then, at the dawn of Internet, my professors stressed the importance of learning to learn instead of cramming specific textbooks and seemingly “fundamental” algorithms. The few smartest professors that…

This post will be short. It largely builds on the previous one: about completely new computer architectures and post-UNIX operating systems, built around the decentralized fine-grained OOP paradigm — the closest digital model of cellular tissue today. …

We are used to certain products e.g. cars. We embraced the self-driving electric car future. We are on the verge of seeing production flying cars. Whether the real problem we should be solving are not better cars, buses, planes, and even Mars-bound spaceships, but the transportation itself. One needs to…

Sorry for staying silent for a couple of years. Nothing much to add on the topics I covered: fair employment, meritocracy, and professional growth. The “miserable” 2020 has been uneventful (knock on wood) for me and my family. I feel for my favorite restaurants going out of business. …

I’ve seen everything in corporate IT over 25+ years. Servers crashing every five minutes, the runaway defect rate, key developers leaving due to the hostile environment… Not going to name the people or companies, as I am sure they learned their lessons. …

That’s right. Who cares? Just write good minimalistic code. Does it make OOP and FP unimportant? No, it makes them equally important to write quality code. This post is for programmers. I am not going to explain OOP or FP, referring to “fundamentals” from Knuth, Dijkstra, or Stroustrup. Sorry, there…

This is the last article in my Meritocracy series and I want to go on record. It’s not worth going through the pain of founding a software company self-funded without a goal of making it big — to afford practicing what you preach. No, my goal is not sticking it…

How would you build a Google-quality enterprise system, since Google doesn’t have a “developer’s guide” for unscientific enterprise software it avoids like a plague? By using Google and/or Facebook tech, right? Are you already? Using Google Maps API and storing data in a Facebook-originated Cassandra database? Great! May I ask…

Data persistence is the most fundamental concept in business software. The current technology is based on the second, “relational” generation of databases. Storing data “relationally” in indexed tables was a huge leap forward compared to mainframe era flat files. …