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Written by Jef Claes on software and life
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on Feb. 13, 2017
I've organized a few DDDBE meetups in the past, and always succeed in forgetting something. Either someone points it out well in advance, or I end up stressing last minute. This post partly serves as a checklist for myself, but it would be a welcome side effect to also see it encourage others to he…
Written by Jef Claes on software and life
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on Jan. 13, 2017
When people get paid to write software, we very often find some form of friction between the people that build the software and those that pay to have it built. The company I joined three years ago was no exception. When I joined, they had just launched three months ago, weren't seeing any return…
Written by Jef Claes on software and life
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on Dec. 27, 2016
I'm keeping the tradition alive, sharing how much I've consumed over the last year highlighting the things that stood out. 18 books, 8 movies and 9 shows. Looks like I consumed more than other years, which probably also explains why I produced less after-hours. Books I finished the Dark Tower serie…
Written by Jef Claes on software and life
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on Sep. 18, 2016
I've been looking into handing a bit of our messaging infrastructure over to a managed alternative. Managing your own messaging infrastructure that should be highly available is not always an investment you want to make in this day and age. Going through the documentation and relying on experiences…
Written by Jef Claes on software and life
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on Aug. 21, 2016
Seems that it's impossible to beat the Gaussian curve of blogging frequency. On the other hand, I spent quite some of my mental blogging budget on an interview with InfoQ. I'm a bit bummed out that it's such a large wall of text. When submitting the answers, I highlighted some snippets which should…
Written by Jef Claes on software and life
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on Apr. 27, 2016
Writing doesn't necessarily always come naturally to me. It often takes me days, weeks or even months of toying with an idea, before I think it's mature enough to put it down into writing. I can't afford that luxury this time though, I wouldn't think of myself as much of a friend if Pieter didn't…