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AWS

Guaranteeing Delivery of Messages with AWS SQS

I wanted to scratch an itch and get feedback from the open-source community. So, I put together a little Github project that I like to call SQS-RetryQueue. Amazon SQS can be utilized to guarantee delivery and processing of messages. This project serves the following purposes: Demonstrate an example of using AWS SQS with Java to send and receive messages. Provide an algorithm for retrying failed … Continue reading Guaranteeing Delivery of Messages with AWS SQS

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Software Engineering

Exploration of the Software Engineering as a Profession

In 1992 Ed Yourdon wrote Decline and Fall of the American Programmer followed by Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer just four years later. The first book spelled doom and gloom for the American Programmers who were going to get replaced by cheaper counterparts in India, Russia, Philippines, etc. The second book revisited some of the predictions based on the changes that the software … Continue reading Exploration of the Software Engineering as a Profession

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Opinion

Microsoft and Apple Have Everything to Lose if Chromebooks Succeed

Desperate times call for desperate measures at Microsoft. Frobes reports: Despite a lacklustre start, Chromebooks are becoming relatively popular in the super-budget end of the portable market. This has worried Microsoft for some time. After all, with a Google-centric experience, not to mention an operating system in the form of Chrome OS, there’s little if anything to be gained here by Microsoft and everything to … Continue reading Microsoft and Apple Have Everything to Lose if Chromebooks Succeed

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